Scanning e-mail "Dori A Schmetterling" <nobody[ at ]spam.co.uk> 12/30/2008 9:25:42 PM Since reading here numerous times that e-mail scanning is redundant and can even cause problems with OE I turned the scanner off (AVG 8 Free). Having become sensitised to this issue I noticed that all anti-virus applications promote the virtues of e-mail scanning. How can the manufacturers be persuaded to at least insert a proviso that e-mail scanning is not always ("never" would be too ambitious) required? What about Microsoft's stance, given the huge user base it has for e-mail clients? DAS -- To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling" ---

Re: Scanning e-mail "Bruce Hagen" <Nospam[ at ]mymail.invalid> 12/30/2008 9:30:26 PM Remove AVG and reinstall in a custom mode. You will see a point when you can opt out of e-mail scanning. Turning off e-mail scanning is safe. See: Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx#EOAAC Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email: http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm Turn off email scanning in your antivirus software: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 And this is from Symantec, but applies to all anti-virus programs. From: http://snipurl.com/bmf6 Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email Scanning? Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Dori A Schmetterling" <nobody[ at ]spam.co.uk> wrote in message news:uaPvuUsaJHA.684[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Since reading here numerous times that e-mail scanning is redundant and > can even cause problems with OE I turned the scanner off (AVG 8 Free). > > Having become sensitised to this issue I noticed that all anti-virus > applications promote the virtues of e-mail scanning. > > How can the manufacturers be persuaded to at least insert a proviso that > e-mail scanning is not always ("never" would be too ambitious) required? > > What about Microsoft's stance, given the huge user base it has for e-mail > clients? > > DAS > -- > To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling" > --- > >

Re: Scanning e-mail "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP[ at ]gmail.com> 12/30/2008 10:31:18 PM Simply put, email scanning is a marketing gimmick. (Email scanning on a server is a horse of a different color.) Dori A Schmetterling wrote: [Quoted Text] > Since reading here numerous times that e-mail scanning is redundant and > can > even cause problems with OE I turned the scanner off (AVG 8 Free). > > Having become sensitised to this issue I noticed that all anti-virus > applications promote the virtues of e-mail scanning. > > How can the manufacturers be persuaded to at least insert a proviso that > e-mail scanning is not always ("never" would be too ambitious) required? > > What about Microsoft's stance, given the huge user base it has for e-mail > clients? > > DAS