"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...

From MY copy of the message I sent containing the binary attachment I get
no
response by clicking the program's icon or the 'paper clip'.

I get a message which says "Outlook Express has made the attachment
inaccessible". So its in my computer somewhere but I can't get at it.
Not
that I want it.

At some time in the distant past I may have set OE to reject suspicious
non-standard attachments.

But out of curiosity, has anyone managed to download program SELFRES2 ?

Or has it been rejected simply because its a binary file sent via a
newsgroup?

Thank you for your cooperation.


Update...

In XP, I clicked Tools/Options then selected the Security tab. Unchecked the
"Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened...". I can get the file now.
I runs just fine.

John

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:17:33 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:
In XP, I clicked Tools/Options then selected the Security tab. Unchecked the
"Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened..."

Hi John,

You are now standing at the edge of the abyss.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:17:33 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

In XP, I clicked Tools/Options then selected the Security tab. Unchecked the
"Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened..."


Hi John,

You are now standing at the edge of the abyss.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

As someone with well over 10000 customers, I can assure you that Richard
is correct.

There was also announced today, an exploit that doesn't even need you to
click on it if you run, gasp!, Microsoft clients.

Here is the link to the story-

http://software.silicon.com/security...9125549,00.htm

and here is a link to the slashdot discussion of it -

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...id=201&tid=218

I also have to admit that the exploit needs a dummy on the receiving end
to complete the circuit by having poor judgement/settings. They may be
able to write it to be better yet, though, and I'm hoping against hope, not.

tom
K0TAR

"Tom Ring" wrote in message
. ..
Richard Clark wrote:

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:17:33 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

In XP, I clicked Tools/Options then selected the Security tab. Unchecked
the "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened..."


Hi John,

You are now standing at the edge of the abyss.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

As someone with well over 10000 customers, I can assure you that Richard
is correct.

There was also announced today, an exploit that doesn't even need you to
click on it if you run, gasp!, Microsoft clients.

Here is the link to the story-

http://software.silicon.com/security...9125549,00.htm

and here is a link to the slashdot discussion of it -

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...id=201&tid=218

I also have to admit that the exploit needs a dummy on the receiving end
to complete the circuit by having poor judgement/settings. They may be
able to write it to be better yet, though, and I'm hoping against hope,
not.

tom
K0TAR

Thanks, Richard and Tom, for your concern. I forgot to say that I
immediately turned that feature back on.

I also use Poptray to examine any mail before actually downloading with OE.
It's amazing how easy it is to spot unwanted emails.

73,
John