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Old 12-14-2005
Question Open an attachment...

Hey guys on windows XP i am trying to open an attachment but the program is saying it is unsafe. Is there anyway to bypass this message and open the attachment anyway? I know its nothing harmful but im guessing the computer thinks it is. Any advice will be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance, Corrail.
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Old 12-16-2005
this kind of message is usually put out by the antivirus software ... if you disable your antivirus software, you can open any attachment you want ... however, i would strongly advise against disabling the antivirus software ...

anyways, you can also save the attachment to disk and then open it through the application that can read it ...
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