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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Unable to download incoming attachments from yahoo

Since October many people are facing problem with downloading the incoming attachments. The fix for this is simple.

  • Update / install Flash player to current version : Check your flash version with http://playerversion.com/
  • Update / install JAVA to current version
  • Clean Cookies, Delete temp files from your browser
  • Some settings in the anti virus installed on your pc
For QuickHeal

  1. Update to the current version, update the virus database.
  2. Open options > email protection > Control attachments to your incoming mails - Disable all.

For Trend micro

  1. Update to the current version, update the virus database.
  2. Go into Virus Controls > Protection Against Viruses > click on Settings and uncheck the box "Threats in Web mail attachments".
Done.....

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