I've just received five different email jpeg attachment from family and friends through Outlook Express. One is an art illustration and the others are family photos taken at Xmas.

When I try to open them the paperclip is greyed out and won't open. When I click on the message it says "OE refused access to the following unsafe attachments in you mail:"

I have a virus scan an my computer and I trust the people I have received the attachments from.

One of these senders got back to me and advised: "For some reason my program thinks there is a risk that the jpeg is a virus. I know it isn't because it is just the picture I sent. If you find a way to get it to ignore the safety settings on that email, then it is safe to do so."

I am using Windows 98 and IE 6.0

I've received numerous attachments over the past few years and never had a problem till now.

Could someone please help me.