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**--Alias--**

Johnny wrote:
What does the tech at the computer shop know about OE or Windows security?
Even Symantec says it's not necessary:

I use AVG. Does the same apply?
Cheers.
Johnny

It applies to *all* anti virus software.

Alias

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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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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Johnny wrote:
1. Understand that what you see in your Hotmail folders in OE only
mirrors what's on the server, so it's not necessary to back-up any of
your OE's Hotmail folders. The server is your backup.
Thanks for this. I wish it were true but in fact the Sent Items in the
Hotmail webmail has posts that never got downloaded to OE. It jumps
straight from the 8th of August to the 21st, while in webmail it has many
in the intermediate period.

...files become doubled
2. See http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#dupes

...every time I reinstall xp
I suppose we could ask why you keep finding it necessary to reinstall
WinXP,
For some reason it keeps going wrong. Particularly when I use
processor-intensive programmes.

but...

3. Your current Identity is probably damaged, especially if its the
default Main Identity. Try one or more of your accounts in a new Named
Identity (File Identities Add new identity). Assuming all is well,
(1) compact all folders in the old identity, (2) import messages from
the old identity into the new one [Don't bother with any Hotmail
folders; see #1 above], and then (3) delete the old one (File
Identities Manage Identities).
OK will try this.

To avoid such corruption in futu

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to
local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
I mentioned this to the repairs technician at the computer shop. They
said
that it was like putting a burglar alarm on your house and leaving the
back door open. I must say I get so much conflicting information on
issues like this (including firewall advice) that I end up totally
confused.
Johnny wrote:
Are you stating that you see messages in the Sent Items folder at
www.hotmail.com which do not show up when you open OE to your
Hotmail Sent Items folder (not the Local Sent Items folder)?
Yes.

Do messages in the Inbox at www.hotmail.com show up when you open
OE to your Hotmail Inbox?
Yes there seems to be no problem with downloading the Inbox. Indeed I
wish I could stop the download deluge every time I reinstall xp and
recofigure OE (files become doubled, for one thing; I want only the
saved .dbx files to be configured, as in these I have deleted spam)
while keeping them safe on my server.

Is this sudden, new behavior or an ongoing problem?
No, I have had this pattern for years. Even stranger is that even
when I save the .dbx files, whether by OE Quick Backup or, as I
recall, by other means, there's always a group of mails covering a
period, always just before the time of the backup, that are not
saved. On this occasion there were many months of Sent Items files
that I was saving, and no large periods between occasions when I have
sent messages either by Hotmail or the other account (UK2) I have on
OE (in fact I have been using both a great deal recently). But the
Hotmail backup for some reason didn't save the last 2 weeks' worth of
sent items and the UK2 didn't save the last three days of sent items.
The messages were definitely recorded in OE before the backup,
though.
Johnny wrote:
I notice my Hotmail Sent Items folder does not download from
webmail to OE. Is there any way to rectify this?