Re: Preview text disappears
From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] (diane.poremsky+msnews_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:15:06 -0500
What does mcafee call it when it's always running in the background,
scanning every write to the disk? That is 'autoprotect'.
Email scanning at the client leave uses resources and negatively affects the
send and receive process. It also causes corruption in email and message
stores (especially OE's stores). Virus scanning should be done on the mail
server and the infected messages removed from the message stream. if your
ISP does not offer the feature, ask them why not.
Outlook's preview pane is secure and can't run any viruses automatically -
it requires user intervention. Outlook writes everything to disk before
opening, so if someone is clueless enough to not recognize a file they
receive is highly likely to be a virus and attempt to open it, 'autoprotect'
will catch it. So.. the only difference between scanning it as it arrived
and when it's opened is that you found out sooner that it was infected. If
you are smart enough to know it's not worth opening, you won't need it
scanned at all and remain just as safe.
If you are unwilling to disable scanning, then you have to live with it
until McAfee releases a fix - it is not an Outlook problem - it is the
antivirus scanner causing problems.
-- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide) Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/ "Mike VanHorn" <mvanhorn@cs.wright.edu> wrote in message news:BE3A2E5B.D40A%mvanhorn@cs.wright.edu... > On 2/17/05 11:05 AM, in article #uMgLqQFFHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl, > "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <diane.poremsky+msnews@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Email scanning is a farce. > > How so? I would have thought catching a virus as it comes in would be a > good > thing; better, anyway, than finding after it's started running. > >>Use the scanner on autoprotect and you are just >> as safe, just not warned as soon. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "use the scanner on autoprotect". We are > using > McAfee v7.1, and I'm not familiar with an "autoprotect" feature. >
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