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"Backing up E-mails"

Does anyone know how to do this?

Mr. Happy wrote:
> my spelling of little words is crpa :-)

LOL :-)

Jive wrote:
> Mr. Happy wrote:
> Anyone with an once of know-how will find the option to turn it off
>
> Glad to see that I've got an OUNCE (spelling) of knowledge then :D

My spelling of sesquipidelian words is frequently excellent; however in moments of fatigue, my spelling of little words is crpa :-)

I don't think so, all I found was that tick box, unticked it and my file appeared, thankfully :-)

Isn't there a filter, instead of stopping ALL files, can't you set it up so it only blocks .exe ..etc?

Mr. Happy wrote:
> Anyone with an once of know-how will find the option to turn it off

Glad to see that I've got an OUNCE (spelling) of knowledge then :D

But if Microsoft had antivirus software built in to the OS with auto-reporting and updating it would build one of the largest anti-virus knowledge bases in the world. Fools.

Good point Mr Happy

If Microsoft could now force everyone to send emails using BCC instead of CC then the amount of spam we get would be cut as well......

It's actually a clever move on Microsoft's part. (It's only just been implemented with SP1)

You see e-mails are spread because the great computing illiterati will click on any attachment even if it says imavirus.exe.

So simply block all attachments. (everything gets blocked, even JPEGs)

Anyone with an once of know-how will find the option to turn it off - these people are therefore intelligent enough not to spread viruses - and those who can't are really too dumb to be allowed anywhere near a computer, yet alone a virus-bearing e-mail.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Slap your antivirus software.

It has nothing to do with my anti virus software thanks. It's actually an internal switch set by OE6 which says that any .exe files plus others but this is one I know of are deemed to be a virus straight away.

MS seem to think that everyone doesn't utilise anti virus software and have decided to stop them from reaching the user.

Fortunately they've also made it that you can turn it off as well. Goto Tools > Options and select the Security tab and untick the "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" and voila the attachments re-appear as they should have done in the first place :D

Um. I get sent hundreds of viri every month and XP does nothing about it. Slap your antivirus software.