How do I stop receiving multiple copies of all emails in Outlook .

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Wife using Outlook 2002 (Win2k)- all of a sudden began and continues to
receive multiple copies of all emails (anywhere from 2 to 100). Symantic and
SpyDoctor enabled and all up to date. Ran AdAware and OK. Ran Stinger and
all OK. It's not our ISP since I don't get the same behavior.

Any ideas?
 
What does 'disable Symantec email integration' actually
mean. Surely you don't mean disable scanning of incoming
emails. NAV 2003 installed. Eric
 
That's exactly what he means.
Actually, AV scanning of mail is pretty much useless and gives many people a
false sense of security - "if the scanner let it in, it must be ok to open,
right?" It gives you early warning of an infected message and not much else.
Outbound scanning is a waste since few viruses use outlook to send mail
anymore and if the scanner does it's job, you won't be infected and can't
send infected messages.

Intelligence and safe email handling ("you can't fool me, I know MS doesn't
send patches by email" and otherwise knowing not to open every single
attachment you get), using autoprotect settings on the scanner (Outlook
writes all attachments to the drive when the message is previewed, so it's
scanned at that time, assuming you didn't delete it unread), and keeping the
scanner defs up-to-date is just as effective and causes fewer problems than
using mail scanning. Even Symantec recommends disabling office integration
when there are problems.
 
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