Re: XP OE6 spam blocker ??

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AV = anti-virus application (any)

If you have your AV app configured to scan incoming or outgoing mail, disable it. It provides no additional protection.

If you don't have an AV app installed, get one installed ASAP!

[AVG7 hadn't been released 6 months ago.]
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security


Henry Kolesnik wrote: 
By AV do you mean AVG, if so I had to give it up 6 months ago because it
was hanging my PC and more trouble than I could stomach.
tnx


73
Hank WD5JFR
"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:23:49 GMT, Henry Kolesnik wrote:
>
> > What's a decent, easy to install and use spam blocker that's free or
> > lowcost
> > and doesn't hang my system?
>
> K9: http://www.keir.net/k9.html
> POPFile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
>
> Anything which acts as a proxy between MS Outlook Express and a POP3
> server
> is prone to disrupting MS Outlook Express. AV is worse because it
> checks a larger database of virus definitions and tends to hang the POP3
> transaction
> worse than the spam checkers.
>
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