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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
It is a common mistake to believe that having an AV scan incoming and outgoing email provides better security. In actuality, your active AV scan will detect any virus/trojan/malware with its real-time scanner. And if you think that having your outgoing email scanned is a good idea, well.... if your outgoing email is infected, you already have a system problem. Scanning of outgoing email will do nothing to help you fix the system problem
Always use an AV solution but NEVER integrate it into Outlook. It causes more problems than it puports to fix and is a sales "scare tactic" that has worked all too well. Outlook's built-in virus/malware blocker works much better and without so many of the problems reported here. Especially the multiple posts of outgoing and incoming mail.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.
After furious head scratching, All Greek Tommy asked:
| If it's any help, I've had the problem ever since I installed Office
| 2007 and was beginning to think I'd be better reverting to Office
| 2003 until some kind of fix is published but after reading through
| all the threads in these discussion groups pertaining to the problem
| I thought I'd try a few minor alterations myself and I believe I may
| have sorted my particular problem at least!
| With Reference to Milly's point 6. below; I use Kaspersky Internet
| Security 6 and under Settings / Mail Anti-Virus I found the heading
| Connectivity where there are two check boxes, both of which are
| checked by default. One says 'Scan POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP Traffic' and
| the other says 'Enable Microsoft Outlook and The Bat! support'.
| Guess what happened when I unchecked the Outlook option?...The data
| file warning and check stopped!
| It would appear there is definitely a problem with Outlook 2007 that
| causes it to disagree with so many different programs. Hopefully it's
| only a matter of time before a fix is published but until then my
| interim fix will remain in place until I see the update that
| addresses the issue.
|
| Alan Foster.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Not always Microsoft's problem.
||
|| Some common reasons why Outlook will not shut down completely when
|| you click either the X or Exit:
||
|| 1. PDA synchronization software with your PDA in the cradle.
|| 2. WinFax Pro (especially 10.02 in Outlook 2003) - contact their
|| support for an alleged fix.
|| 3. Franklin-Covey Plan Plus!
|| 4. COM Add-ins.
|| 5. Mail reminder add-ins that keep a stub of Outlook open in the
|| background to check for new mail and fire reminders.
|| 6. Anti-virus/firewall programs that are set to scan incoming and
|| outgoing mail.
|| 7. The latest Skype update.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Flatch U. Lance asked:
||
||| I too have been having the same problem and have been collecting
||| data about this issue for the past three days.
|||
||| The most common answer is "The mostly likely explanation is that
||| some add-in or external application is holding Outlook open so that
||| it can't close completely."
|||
||| Several of these add-in's are Microsoft products, which should NOT
||| be causing this problem. Also, I never had this problem with Outlook
||| 2003 nor has anyone else from what I've read.
|||
||| Opening and closing an application is a fundamental task that should
||| be no more complicated than that. We should not have to consider
||| anything else beyond that except opening Outlook immedietly after
||| closing it.
|||
||| Bottom line. This is a flaw or a bug within Outlook 2007 itself.
||| Microsoft, as usual, throws out every explanation BUT that.
|||
||| I hope they are working on a fix. I still think 2007 is a great
||| product and a major improvement over pervious versions.
Always use an AV solution but NEVER integrate it into Outlook. It causes more problems than it puports to fix and is a sales "scare tactic" that has worked all too well. Outlook's built-in virus/malware blocker works much better and without so many of the problems reported here. Especially the multiple posts of outgoing and incoming mail.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.
After furious head scratching, All Greek Tommy asked:
| If it's any help, I've had the problem ever since I installed Office
| 2007 and was beginning to think I'd be better reverting to Office
| 2003 until some kind of fix is published but after reading through
| all the threads in these discussion groups pertaining to the problem
| I thought I'd try a few minor alterations myself and I believe I may
| have sorted my particular problem at least!
| With Reference to Milly's point 6. below; I use Kaspersky Internet
| Security 6 and under Settings / Mail Anti-Virus I found the heading
| Connectivity where there are two check boxes, both of which are
| checked by default. One says 'Scan POP3/SMTP/IMAP/NNTP Traffic' and
| the other says 'Enable Microsoft Outlook and The Bat! support'.
| Guess what happened when I unchecked the Outlook option?...The data
| file warning and check stopped!
| It would appear there is definitely a problem with Outlook 2007 that
| causes it to disagree with so many different programs. Hopefully it's
| only a matter of time before a fix is published but until then my
| interim fix will remain in place until I see the update that
| addresses the issue.
|
| Alan Foster.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Not always Microsoft's problem.
||
|| Some common reasons why Outlook will not shut down completely when
|| you click either the X or Exit:
||
|| 1. PDA synchronization software with your PDA in the cradle.
|| 2. WinFax Pro (especially 10.02 in Outlook 2003) - contact their
|| support for an alleged fix.
|| 3. Franklin-Covey Plan Plus!
|| 4. COM Add-ins.
|| 5. Mail reminder add-ins that keep a stub of Outlook open in the
|| background to check for new mail and fire reminders.
|| 6. Anti-virus/firewall programs that are set to scan incoming and
|| outgoing mail.
|| 7. The latest Skype update.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Flatch U. Lance asked:
||
||| I too have been having the same problem and have been collecting
||| data about this issue for the past three days.
|||
||| The most common answer is "The mostly likely explanation is that
||| some add-in or external application is holding Outlook open so that
||| it can't close completely."
|||
||| Several of these add-in's are Microsoft products, which should NOT
||| be causing this problem. Also, I never had this problem with Outlook
||| 2003 nor has anyone else from what I've read.
|||
||| Opening and closing an application is a fundamental task that should
||| be no more complicated than that. We should not have to consider
||| anything else beyond that except opening Outlook immedietly after
||| closing it.
|||
||| Bottom line. This is a flaw or a bug within Outlook 2007 itself.
||| Microsoft, as usual, throws out every explanation BUT that.
|||
||| I hope they are working on a fix. I still think 2007 is a great
||| product and a major improvement over pervious versions.