as long as its on 'autoprotect' you'll be ok. Outlook writes files to the
securetemp folder before opening and autoprotect will catch any viruses at
that time - assuming you have a lapse in judgment and open the attachment
rather than delete the message. The reading pane in outlook 2002/2003/2007
does not support active content, so you'd need to do something more than
read a message in the preview pane to kick start it.

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"Don Gollahon" wrote in message
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Diane Poremsky {MVP} wrote:

Are you scanning email with norton? Only use it for general OS
scanning, not for mail.

I'll turn it off for awhile and see if it helps. But with all the
viruses, etc, going around I won't keep it off forever. I had Norton's
in XP with Outlook 2003 and it all worked fine together.

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Don Gollahon