Ask your friend to change the extension.
This may be moderately annoying, but it is in your best interest to have Outlook do everything it can to protect you from malicious code which may be hiding in database files and executable files.
So you may not be able to open that MDB or EXE file your friend sent you. But don't despair, you can get around Outlook if really need that file.
Email your friend back and tell him "I need you to change the file extention to MDX (or anything else besides MDB) and then resend it to me."
Your friend changes the file extension, Outlook no longer recognizes it as a database file, and it lets it through. Now, when you save the attachment, you've just got to remember to change the extension back to MDB and you're good to go!
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