email has attachments

After I downloaded 7 XP and 7 Office updates last week, my Outlook Express 6
email messages have all appeared with attachments. The pictures are also
separate attachments. This did not happen before the updates. I looked for
a "change automatic download settings" button but did not find one. I have
Office 2003 student and teacher edition does this make a difference? Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Outlook Express is part of Windows, not MS Office.

1. OE Tools > Options > Read > Read all messages in Plain Text (uncheck?)

2. OE Tools > Options > Security > Download images > ... (uncheck?)

3. Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It provides no
additional protection, it may be causing the problem, and even Symantec says
it's not necessary:

<paste>
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
</paste>
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)


Fritz wrote:
> After I downloaded 7 XP and 7 Office updates last week, my Outlook Express
> 6
> email messages have all appeared with attachments. The pictures are also
> separate attachments. This did not happen before the updates. I looked
> for
> a "change automatic download settings" button but did not find one. I
> have
> Office 2003 student and teacher edition does this make a difference? Any
> help would be appreciated. Thanks.