Yes it will as long as you have the real-time protection on.

What your AV is trying to do is redirect outlook express to ask for mail via
a small mail server program the AV has installed (127.0.0.1 is always the
address of your local machine, the one you are typing on) so that the AV's
"Proxy" server can filter out virus infected emails. Unfortunately OE does
not like the timing errors this can introduce and so it is a system that is
prone to causing major OE problems.

Your AV uses the same definitions for this as it does for normal real-time
protection, so the coverage is no greater but the risk of damaging OE goes
up considerably.

The real-time part will stop anything executing or perhaps even being saved
to disk that is dangerous although you will probably spot bad emails first.
Always remember though that no AV system can stop a brand new virus that's
just been released so you remain your computer's best protection.

Charlie


"Sweeney" wrote in message
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Yes. 127.0.0.1. That is exactly it. Thank you so much. Strange. I
have been using McAfee for nearly a year now and this problem just
surfaced a couple of days ago. I must have received a product update that
created this problem.

Why do you say that the e-mail scan function of the anti-virus software
serves no useful purpose? Will my anti-virus program still catch e-mails
and attachments that contain viruses?

Thanks again.

" mac" wrote in message
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"JEANNE Sweeney" wrote in message
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Every time I shut down Windows XP and restart, Outlook Express for some
reason changes the IP address of the incoming mail server (POP3) to a
dummy address. I have to go in manually each time and change the
incoming mail server (POP3) address to the correct address for my 6
e-mail accounts with two different internet service providers. These
settings will remain no matter how many times I open and close Outlook
Express until the next time I turn the computer off. When I restart,
the bogus IP address for the incoming mail servers (POP3) are back. It
is the same bogus IP address for both internet service providers.

Does anyone have any advice for how I can get the true IP addresses for
the incoming mail servers (POP3) to stick when I change them? The way I
have been doing it is to go into Tools-Accounts-Properties. Thanks.



127.0.0.1?
This is being caused by your anti virus software, disable the section of
it ONLY that scans incoming and outgoing mail, it serves no useful
purpose.
Spam filtering programs have been known to cause it also.

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]