Re: Virus check of incoming e-mail
From: Alias (aka_at_maskedandanonymous.com)
Date: 01/15/05
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:57:07 +0100
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote
: If I am so wrong please provide the MS KB article stating this fact.
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: Dave
Be delighted to:
From:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
"Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption
When encountering the symptoms of DBX corruption, many people immediately
fear that their computer is infected with a virus. As surprising and ironic
as it may seem though, the most common cause of DBX corruption is not a
virus, but rather anti-virus programs that are configured to scan incoming
or outgoing e-mail. Even the most well-known anti-virus programs have
exhibited this problem from time to time. To lessen the risk of such
corruption you should disable the e-mail scanning module in your anti-virus
program. This is usually easy to do by looking at the user-configurable
options in the anti-virus program. It is not at all necessary to scan e-mail
for viruses to protect your computer.
Now before you dismiss me as mad, let me explain why e-mail scanning is
unnecessary. Almost every anti-virus program for Windows installs by default
a system scan that runs in the background every time Windows starts. This
scan is necessary to protect your computer. If you receive a virus in an
e-mail attachment, the virus cannot do anything at all until you actually
open the attachment. At that time Outlook Express extracts the attachment
from the message and saves it to the Temporary Internet Files folder on your
hard disk and attempts to open the file. And it is precisely at that moment
that a background system scan will detect the virus, provided it is able to
do so, and stop the virus from executing. The system scan will usually
delete the infected file from the Temporary Internet Files folder, or else
move it to quarantine. To remove the infected e-mail message in Outlook
Express, simply hold the Shift key while you press the Delete key. That's
all it takes to keep your computer safe, both from e-mail viruses and e-mail
anti-virus scanners. Scanning e-mail as it arrives therefore adds nothing to
your level of protection. It might indeed make you feel more protected, but
that feeling is an illusion. If the system scan is unable to detect the
virus, the e-mail scan will fail to do so also."
-- Alias, waiting for your apology. Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. : : : : : "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message news:eIc%23tmx%| : Mr. Lipman doesn't know what he's talking about. : | Turn it OFF. : | It provides no added protection. : | 1. Some will actually empty mail folders. : | 2. They all sow down sending and receiving mail, often causing the : | operation to time out and fail. : | : | -- : | Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE : | Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email : | http://www.fjsmjs.com : | Protect your PC : | http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx : | : | : :
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