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**Simreaper** · 07-26-2008

Hi Hal,

Thanks for this information and have to say the more I use Vista the more I hate it, as has more bugs than all the rainforests in the world do, wish had still been able to get XP when needed new laptop

The weird thing is the only place I have this problem is with my laptop, it doesn't show a newly drafted email as in there unless you close the program and then reopen it then it shows a blue number 1 in brackets same for outbox yet desktop as soon as you send anything to draft or outbox it shows up immediately as being in there. Also did disable incoming and outgoing scanning on laptop and guess what happened to the email I put in the drafts folder last night before going to bed, any ideas? Yes it marked it as sent/read this morning when I turned it on and as had done a lot of it told laptop to forward it and then deleted the forwarded info and finished off the email.

Debbie

Quote: Originally Posted by Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]

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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Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@xxxxxx
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
KVOA News 4, Tucson, Arizona - Home -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
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Quote:

>
> 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 :-(
>
>
> --
> Simreaper

07-26-2008	#9 (permalink)
Simreaper Vista Home Premium 32bit SP1 27 posts	Re: Draft email now shown as a read/sent email Hi Hal, Thanks for this information and have to say the more I use Vista the more I hate it, as has more bugs than all the rainforests in the world do, wish had still been able to get XP when needed new laptop The weird thing is the only place I have this problem is with my laptop, it doesn't show a newly drafted email as in there unless you close the program and then reopen it then it shows a blue number 1 in brackets same for outbox yet desktop as soon as you send anything to draft or outbox it shows up immediately as being in there. Also did disable incoming and outgoing scanning on laptop and guess what happened to the email I put in the drafts folder last night before going to bed, any ideas? Yes it marked it as sent/read this morning when I turned it on and as had done a lot of it told laptop to forward it and then deleted the forwarded info and finished off the email. Debbie Quote: Originally Posted by Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I] 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 -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@xxxxxx Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX KVOA News 4, Tucson, Arizona - Home -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com "Simreaper" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:ec520ecb055227056e913546132d6389@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > 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 :-( > > > -- > Simreaper
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