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Old 02-19-2008   #8 (permalink)
StephenB
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Re: Outlook and OneCare

LOL!
Thanks, Joe.
My biggest compensation is the satisfaction of helping someone with a problem
they encountered.
Being honored as an MVP has a few perks, but can't be considered compensation
for support provided.
Take care,
-steve

"Joe" <abc@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

>Great, thanks again Stephen- by the way, I'm amazed that MS can get people
>to do much of their first line tech support for free. Bill Gates could
>probably break one of his spare change purses and greatly enrich all the MS
>MVP folks. You deserve something for the time you put into this. I saw on
>the OneCare forums that you've posted many thousands of messages. And if MS
>won't compensate you, you at least have gotten a substantial number of good
>karma points so you won't have to be reborn with a tiny brain like the one
>that president Bush has. <G>
>
>Joe
>
>
>"StephenB" <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:avn9r3dejh41h2bc2shfdofejamthqt3fl@xxxxxx
Quote:

>> The full virus scan that runs during a Tune-up will scan the email store
>> (a .pst
>> file for Outlook) and pretty much everything on the system. If, while
>> scanning
>> the mail store, it finds an infected message or, more typically, an
>> infected
>> attachment to a message, it will report "Quarantine Failed" as it cannot
>> automatically clean the infection from within the email store. It will
>> make a
>> note of this and will block it if you attempted to execute the infection
>> by
>> opening the message and/or executing the attachment.
>> -steve
>>
>> "Joe" <abc@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
Quote:

>>>Stephen, I'm not sure I follow you when you say that a scan- if it finds
>>>an
>>>email in the Deleted folder which is infected- will trigger an infection?
>>>Do
>>>you mean that OneCare will see it as an infection, then issue that
>>>warning?
>>>Just want to be sure I understand you.
>>>
>>>Joe
>>>
>>>"StephenB" <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:drupq3to020pjj1fou4vm0p39d7offru6h@xxxxxx
>>>> Peter Flindt <newsgroups@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>StephenB wrote at 07.02.2008 :
>>>>>> Peter Flindt <newsgroups@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> scan OneCare outgoing and incomming emails? (Outlook 2007)
>>>>>>> If yes, how to disable the scanning of outgoing mails?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is more a therorethical question. I have no problems with
>>>>>>> Outlook
>>>>>>> 2007, Vista and OneCare, but I want to know this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> OneCare does not scan emails inbound or outbound. It will, however,
>>>>>> scan
>>>>>> any
>>>>>> attachments you attempt to open and will (hopefully) leap into action
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> malicous script were attempting to execute when you opened a email.
>>>>>> -steve
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>good to know this, no waste of time and activity for all this deleted
>>>>>spam mails.
>>>>>
>>>>>Peter
>>>>>
>>>> Very true. :-)
>>>> A full scan (Tune-up or manual virus and spyware scan) will be scanning
>>>> your
>>>> mail store, so any infected spam that is sitting in a Deleted Items
>>>> folder
>>>> or
>>>> Junk Mail folder on your PC will trigger an infection and a lovely
>>>> "Quarantine
>>>> Failed" message.
>>>> -steve
>>>> --
>>>> Stephen Boots sboots@xxxxxx
>>>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live
>>>> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
>>>> http://forums.microsoft.com/windowso....aspx?siteid=2
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Boots sboots@xxxxxx
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live
>> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
>> http://forums.microsoft.com/windowso....aspx?siteid=2
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Stephen Boots sboots@xxxxxx
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live
Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowso....aspx?siteid=2