George
Sun Oct 05 06:31:34 CDT 2003
That's a common problem with Norton.
Here is what they have to say about Email scanning;
"Disabling email protection does not leave you vulnerable to viruses and
malicious software in email. It is a separate layer of protection in addition to
Auto-Protect. Auto-Protect scans any incoming files, including email, as they
are saved to your hard drive. As long as you keep your virus definitions up to
date with LiveUpdate, and keep Auto-Protect enabled and set to scan files as
they are created or downloaded, your system is fully protected".
and from McAfee we have this truism
"You don't have to worry about the e-mail scan as this is a corporate
feature -requiring Outlook 2000 and a mail server such as Exchange server.
Unless you meet the criteria you should make sure that it is disabled. As long
as you have the Download scan and Internet filter enabled you'll be just fine as
these two options effectively checks anything downloaded -including e-mails. I
hope this answers your question. Remember e-mail scan is for corporate users
only".
As long as you have system scan running and you have kept your antivirus up to
date, you can just *save* the attachments and if you try to run it, the virus
will be caught..
--
George (Bindar Dundat ©) MS-MVP
This information is provided "AS IS"
It may even be wrong!
For Windows Troubleshooting Tips see
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http://aumha.org/win4/a/tshoot.htm
2000/XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/tshoot.htm
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