# Disabling Outlook Express babysitting my attatchments...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disabling-outlook-express-babysitting-my-attatchments/164480>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 27, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disabling-outlook-express-babysitting-my-attatchments/164480 "2003-03-27T06:52:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disabling-outlook-express-babysitting-my-attatchments/164480/1 "2003-03-27T06:52:14Z")

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Yes, I know Mircosoft means well.

Yes, I know majority of virus problems come because of attatchments.

But I am now currently doing a programming project and emails is a great way to send zip files to each other.

So how do I enable the saving of zip files attatchments? (It is currently disabled because it is an ‘unsafe attatchment’).

Is there an option where I can say, “I am smarter than you, Outlook, so let me decide which attatchment to open and which not to!”

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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disabling-outlook-express-babysitting-my-attatchments/164480/2 "2003-03-27T07:10:36Z")

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Go to Tools\>Options.

Click the Security tab.

Uncheck the “Do not allow attachments…”