Like the OP, you /must/ uninstall your Symantec AV program and do a custom
installation, opting out of e-mail scanning when it arises. Norton/Symantec
e-mail scanning can not be disabled completely otherwise.

Personally, I would not have anything made by Norton/Symantec on any machine
of mine.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"wildcatgolfer" wrote in message
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I turned off e-mail scanner and when I tried sending again,scanner started
right back,,,symantec,,,It also continued to run long after file was sent.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

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/...ion.mspx#EOAAC

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

Turn off email scanning in your antivirus softwa
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.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Dori A Schmetterling" wrote in message
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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
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To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
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