Re: Opening first email takes a while

It is a redundant layer of protection that causes many problems with OE. The other components of your AV are sufficient enough to catch viruses. It was first marketed by Norton in an attempt to boost sales by making people think they would be safer, and even Norton says it is not necessary.

Turning off e-mail scanning is safe. See:

Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx#EOAAC

And this is from Symantec, but applies to all anti-virus programs.

From:
http://snipurl.com/bmf6

Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email Scanning?

Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1181828515.471794@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uIhoXpirHHA.4992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause such corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.

Why do people keep saying this? Norton has caught enough viruses in incoming Spam?


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