It may sound good, but it isn't. Some viruses even insert that text in
their virus laden messages. So you can't trust any message that says it
has been scanned.

Outgoing scanning on a PC is even more worthless than incoming. If a PC
is already infected, the anti-virus software is compromised and can't be
trusted to properly catch any virus.

As PA Bear says, e-mail scanning belongs on the mail server where it can
be properly done and is far more effective.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Dori A Schmetterling" wrote in message
...
A couple of the anti-virus apps even append the msg that an outgoing
msg has been scanned. (It certainly sounds good.)

I guess Microsoft would not issue advice to stop e-mail scanning.

sigh
DAS

To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling"
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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
...
Simply put, email scanning is a marketing gimmick. (Email scanning
on a server is a horse of a different color.)

Dori A Schmetterling wrote:
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