There is no problem in viewing either jpeg or gif files on my system at this point in Outlook. Possibly in Microsoft's ongoing wisdom(meant to be sarcastic!)(to Microsoft, not you Herb) they changed this around at some point.
-----Original Message----- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: clever virus attack (Att. Dalal) the attachments in this case were JPG and GIF files. since MS normally configured these to open with IE, they were deemed unsafe and would not open and could not be detached either, so you could never access them, but they were still there. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:19 AM Subject: RE: clever virus attack (Att. Dalal) > I don't think you can configure the level one file extensions. What they > have eliminated though I don't consider a bad thing. Anytime you need to > send someone something though whether it be on a network or email a > compressed zip or rar file is always a better choice. A lot less chance of > a file being corrupted this way and if a virus was in a compressed file it > would be isolated until opened. At least it cannot start a problem just > because I opened an email with it attached.