"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
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"Gary VanderMolen" wrote in message
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Email scanning in any antivirus must be disabled, for reasons
explained he

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm
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Email Scanning has never given me any problems.

Me neither, because I don't use it.

This fuss about the supposed evils of email scanning is a tempest in a
teapot as well as bum dope.

I partially agree with that. Timeouts can be adjusted, and corruption
issues are problems with a particular scanners and e-mail clients.

I keep email scanning on for both send and receive and have an extra layer
of protection...

True, but it is like calling a handkerchief an extra layer of blanket on
your
bed. Unless the scanning engine for the e-mail scanning is different than
the one you use for 'on access' file scanning, you only get the benefit of
another look using the same eyes.

If others want to strip off that layer of protection that's their loss --
and their problem, when something goes wrong.

Having that 'first look' would be beneficial if the malware was a
software exploit aimed at a vulnerability in the e-mail client. That
is to say that the malware would execute by infecting the already
executing client software - without 'on access' ever having a file
created to scan.

In that case you have substituted the internet facing e-mail client
with a proxy client that scans for malware. It has happened that
scanning software itself created an internet facing vulnerability.

AND I don't send out infected files to my contacts.

The worthiness of outbound scanning depends on your ability to
harbor malware on the system that only your outbound scanner
can detect. This begs the question; "How did it get on the system
in the first place?".

Benefits All Around...

For Both Me & My Correspondents.

Overkill followed by the "warm fuzzies" all around.

It's quite foolish not to email scan if your AV/IS software incorporates
that feature -- and I wouldn't want a program that did not have it.

A marketing ploy so that one AV can be percieved as 'rising above' its
contemporaries. Others' followed suit so as to not lose marketshare.
Same as with crud detection.

I don't want the virus, trojan, worm, or whatever, to even GET to my hard
drive unannounced -- much less for me to open it.

Just where do you suppose the scanning takes place with e-mail?

Further, email scanning doesn't slow me down at all.

Emails open quickly and securely in Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Live
Mail, Thunderbird and Forte Agent.

That's good, but that is no reason to discount the experiences of others'.
They are not foolish just because *you* haven't experienced problems.