Hi D. Spencer Hines
I see merit to both sides of the argument. For a little over two years I've
been running
Vista HP using Avast. I felt as you've felt and scanned email and as far as
I can tell scanning email
never caused me a problem. About 4 months ago I stopped scanning email and
the only benefit
was a slight speed gain, nor has not scanning emails caused a problem. In
the 20 months I was
scanning emails I never received any alerts of any threats. I have had the
Servers of my ISP(s) block
incoming emails ,attachments and/or imbedded images. It does seem that one
school, the don't scan
email have seen many problems caused by some scanning software and they must
feel that it can
cause more problems than problems scanning will prevent. I don't know if
their stats represent the vast majority or not.
I can understand how some virus scanning software will cause problems.
I know that there are those that clam to be experts who promote the idea
that anyone can get a virus by just opening an email.
There seems to be a larger number of experts who promote that that's not
possible or most unlikely. I can see where both can be wrong and right.
But that could all depend on what kind of network and how sophisticated it
is. Both sides of this argument maybe right to one degree or the other, but
I believe
it depends more or less on the exact circumstances of the Network being
discussed.
Most people are only dealing with "The Internet" or as they think of it "The
WWW".

So, please for all those who feel as you do, or are not sure which way to go
please share the information about your setup.
What Virus scanning software you use, your OS and the hardware you feel a
person should conceder using to
avoid slow downs that scanning emails may cause. How often has your virus
scanning software alerted you when scanning emails?
What have the threats been that you have received but avoided by scanning
email?
What problems have you had in the past that you feel were caused by not
scanning your emails? Both incoming and out going emails.
What virus have you had that were caused by opening emails?
Have you had any virus that slipped by your email virus scanning software
and made it on to your system when you did open them?
The make model and aka of any virus would also be nice to know.
In the past have you used any virus scanning software that did cause you
problems (what were the problems?) and therefore caused you to switch to
another or the virus software you currently run?
How often do you recommend doing a through virus scan of a system? Using
your virus scanning software what changes to the default setting do you
recommend?
Do you have any tips or other precautions you would recommend being used
when it comes to security and emails in particular?

I Remain Security Conscious,
H Brown




"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.

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

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

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

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

Benefits All Around...

For Both Me & My Correspondents.

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.

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.

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.

DSH
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