Outlook Banter - View Single Post - my outgoing mail is marked as SPAM since the Service Pack 3 upgrad

**Adnil**

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

Neither OE nor WinXP SP3 is responsible for this behavior.

Tip: Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It provides no
additional protection and even Symantec says it's not necessary:

QP
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.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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Adnil wrote:
Most of my outgoing mail on my virgin.net account is being tagged as SPAM
when I send it through Outlook Express. This means that most of my mail
never gets through, and the rest often gets deleted. It started happening
immediately after the servcie pack 3 upgrade. Can anyone help me to fix
this?

Thank you for this advice but I do not have Norton on my machine - does your advice apply equally to MacAfee? MacAfee make s abig fuss if I disable email scanning and I am loathe to do this if it leaves my vulnerable to viruses. What is Live Update? If I have to run it manually, how can I know that a new virus hasn't appeared in the time between the last update? If I knew more about computers, I wouldn't worry. thanks for your help