You don't need email scanning, PERIOD! Here's why - any and EVERY
attachment you receive in email has been encoded so it will go through
email. The default method of doing this, these days, is MIME; other
versions include UUEncode and BinHex. You see, email can only pass
"printable characters" and binary files (pictures, executables, anything
that isn't pure text) contains a mix of printable and non-printable
characters. The only way to get these through email is to encode the
attachment so all characters are printable. This means the file must be
DEcoded after reception before it can do anything. The decode process takes
the attachment and writes the decoded output to a temporary file on the disk
as its being decoded. The instant this process finishes and BEFORE you or
your PC can do anything with it, the resident file system scanner in your
AntiVirus application grabs it and scans it. If it's malware, it gets
NAILED right then and there. This demonstrates that you are FULLY protected
WITHOUT email scanning, provided the resident file system scanner is kept up
to date.
Hal
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"Simreaper" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks that sounds interesting for now will leave incoming turned on and
> see what happens and if still happens then will disable the email
> scanning totally and never open attachments direct from my inbox have
> always saved them to desktop then let Norton scan them even when from
> friends addresses just in case they've been hacked and don't know it.
> Definitely come to conclusion that Vista still has more bugs than XP
> ever had :-(
>
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> Simreaper