On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:45:01 -0700, Adnil wrote:

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

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?


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

Thank you for this advice but I do not have Norton on my machine - does
your advice apply equally to MacAfee?

McAfee is as bad as Norton.

MacAfee make s abig fuss if I disable email scanning and I am loathe to do
this if it leaves my vulnerable to viruses.

Not scanning email, inbound, or outbound, will not leave your computer
vulnerable to viruses. I have installed AVG on one computer (but it is
becoming bloatware), and Avast on another. In each case, I selected "Custom
Install" during the install routine, and selected to not have the program
scan email for viruses. The memory resident, "on-access" scanner is all that
you need. I tell people who worry about it to try sending themselves a copy
of the "EICAR" file, and see how their AV reacts without email scanning
active.

There used to be a web site where you could request an email with the EICAR
file attached. I can't seem to locate it; but here is a search link on
EICAR.

| http://ws.copernic.com/copern/ws/res...7?_IceUrl=true

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?

Live Update is related to Norton products. If you don't have any Norton
products, you shouldn't have Live Update.

If I knew more about computers, I wouldn't worry. thanks for your help

As long as you have a memory resident, on-access AV scanner, which most AV
products provide, you don't need, and should never install, an email
scanner.

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