Thank you Frank. I had tried - and just tried again - turning off the Norton
email scanning.

I've removed the 'Message Rule' that I found Norton had inserted - I don't
know where else to find any anti-spam tool - perhaps I haven't got that
feature?

I'm still getting false alarms every time OE checks for messages -

Sally

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote:

"sjm" wrote in message
...
Every time OE checks for new messages I get the 'new e-mail' icon and the
beep in my toolbar, whether there's a new message or not.

This new glitch coincided with my downloading of Symantec's 'Norton 2007'
anti-virus package but they've helped me trouble-shoot and are convinced
there's no connection.

Help!

1. Turn off email scanning in Norton Anti-virus.
2. Turn off Norton Anti-Spam.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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