Peter Foldes

Norton is just as bad if not worse than MacAfee. These 2 AV suites you should stay away from

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"Saigon''s Mom" <SaigonsMom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FE82B8AA-7613-4C47-9054-051B24279EC7@microsoft.com...
> Bob,
> Thank you for your insights. I will, most likely, look into a different mail
> program. As for McAfee, disabling makes no difference and I'm hesitant to get
> too involved with it because I'll probably switch to Norton before the McAfee
> trial runs out. Interesting that even though I've supposedly disabled the
> scanning, it continues to scan.
> Windows provides the firewall, yes? I haven't seen any other names.
>
> "Bob J" wrote:
>
>> First I must state that I am not in anyway anti MS, and have been using Vista
>> for over 12mth, with a few minor problems, if read thru these MS groups you
>> will see that Windows Mail does appear to have a lot of problems.
>> A replacement for Windows Mail called Windows Live Mail is available, which
>> may be worth trying, it appears to operate better that WM.
>> Another alternative is Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail reader, both of
>> which I have used for several years, both with XP and now Vista.
>> What firewall are you running?
>> Doe McAfee indicate why you cannot disable E-Mail Scanner?
>> --
>> Regards
>> Bob J
>>
>>
>> "Saigon''s Mom" wrote:
>>
>> > I bought the laptop with Vista and Microsoft mail a week ago. At first the
>> > mail program worked fine, albeit slow. Now I cannot send email. No error
>> > message appears; the mail just goes to the Outbox and stays there. My server
>> > information is correct. (Pinetree Networks). I've tried to disable the
>> > McCaffree virus scanner to no avail. Every time I open Mail it "processes"
>> > each and every file.
>> >
>> > Not sure where to go from here. Any other suggestions?