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- Malware sent via email in word document . dot - Microsoft Community
My wife opened up an email attachment that was an obvious Phishing attempt The file she opened was a dot ms word file I wasn't present when this happened, but she says that when she opened it up in word that it blocked the content and was unable to click in the document
- Don’t Click On These 5 Dangerous Email Attachments - Forbes
Unless you’re absolutely sure that someone has sent you a compressed file for a legitimate reason, don’t touch any attachment with a zip, rar, r09, arc or other compressed file type
- Files are converted to . zip files after being sent with Outlook
For 2 weeks now, some files ( docx, xlsx), sent with Outlook have been converted into a zip file after they have been sent We were able to find this out using the M365 Security Portal If the receipient opens the file, it seems to be corrupt and the file size is smaller then the original one
- Trouble opening Word docs that were sent as email attachments
However even after saving the file locally, attempting to open it causes an error and won't allow the document to be opened If you are sure the document was sent to you by a trusted source a good workaround is to try temporarily disabling protected view within Word settings
- Troubleshoot attachment problems in Outlook for Windows
To send a file that Outlook identifies as unsafe, zip the file first, then attach the zipped file To zip a file, navigate to the folder on your computer or in the cloud that contains the file, right-click the file, and select Send to compressed (zipped) folder
- Why do Word Documents that are sent through Outlook showing up as a . . .
It sounds like you're encountering an issue where Word documents are being mistakenly treated as PDF files when received through Outlook This can cause the documents to become unreadable or produce errors when you try to open them
- I cannot open Outlook zipped attachments - Microsoft Q A
And I can even save that opened file to a folder and open the saved file But I cannot copy the zipped files or folders to a folder and then open the files in them I copied the folders to another folder so that I could change the security settings And they still give me the same message
- Recover unsaved word document that was opened directly from Outlook . . .
Much better practice is to save the attachment to the computer and open it from there Here is a web page that addresses the problem and possible ways to recover lost changes
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