[Microsoft Outlook 2019 and Attachments, all attachments come with a weird extension_, .xls]

Dear @george_ogden, thank you for your response.

Sadly it is not just plagiarism, it has gone now so far that Kaspersky Employee removed my origonal post, but left the copied answer by @Anton Aleksandrovich. I understand the goal is to help. But this is not fair in a community.

Your topic posts are your own, aren't it? How can they just remove it. 

How can I trust Kaspersky and help if my content is being violated, copied and changed.

[Microsoft Outlook 2019 and Attachments, all attachments come with a weird extension_, .xls]

@Anton, why did you copy my initial support answer to someone else's question and posted it as your own??

 

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[Microsoft Outlook 2019 and Attachments, all attachments come with a weird extension_, .xls]

Dear Kaspersky Community,

 

I thought of sharing a solution to something that recently has hit a lot of users where Outlook email attachments are showing as blank icons and the file extension changes to underscores in the last character, for example:

“.pdf” shows as “.pd_”,

“.docx” as “.doc_”

“.png” as “.pn_”

 

Email pictures included in HTML formats are also broken and the right-click properties all greyed out.

 

Solution:

Close outlook. Open Kaspersky Internet Security > Go to Protection (left pane) > Mail-Anti-Virus > Advanced Settings > disable the renaming of all extentions, leaving the dangerous ones enabled: *.bat, *.сmd, *.com, *.exe, *.js, *.jse, *.msi, *.scr, *.vbe, *.vbs. Open Outlook.

 

This solution fixes all new incoming email. Unfortunately past emails affected by this will not be changed - so to manually solve this: show extensions > save attachment file type without the "_", then file properties and unblock.