NAV2005 & Outlook Express

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Hannis

Hi,
Is it necessary for my Norton Anti Virus 2005 to be configured with scanning
incoming and outgoing emails from my Outlook Express?
Thanks
 
Hannis said:
Hi,
Is it necessary for my Norton Anti Virus 2005 to be configured with
scanning incoming and outgoing emails from my Outlook Express?
Thanks
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I would have Norton to scan incoming mail. You really do not need to
have outgoing mail scanned.
 
Email scanning can create multiple problems in Outlook Express. These
include duplicate emails,missing emails,identity corruption,breaking of
links, outgoing mail not being received, etc,etc,etc,. No need to use email
scanning You resident Norton Anti Virus will still protect you. Just a very
few remarks on this below.


Norton has become
quite intrusive in recent months and many of us now regard it as litttle
more than a virus itself and refuse to install it on any system we own or
maintain.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

Norton and any AV email scanning engine is a useless feature that can and
will cause problems in OE . Turn it off you will still be protected with
your resident AV

Tom Koch, MVP for IE/Outlook Express
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com
or http://www.insideoe.com
Awareness is free.
--
Peter

Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.


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That's a load of BS. Runs fine here always has. No one I talk to around
here has any problems with it. But then we manage our machines properly.
Pop
--
Let someone else do it
I'm retired!
Peter Foldes said:
Email scanning can create multiple problems in Outlook Express. These
include duplicate emails,missing emails,identity corruption,breaking of
links, outgoing mail not being received, etc,etc,etc,. No need to use
email scanning You resident Norton Anti Virus will still protect you. Just
a very few remarks on this below.


Norton has become
quite intrusive in recent months and many of us now regard it as litttle
more than a virus itself and refuse to install it on any system we own or
maintain.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

Norton and any AV email scanning engine is a useless feature that can and
will cause problems in OE . Turn it off you will still be protected with
your resident AV

Tom Koch, MVP for IE/Outlook Express
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com
or http://www.insideoe.com
Awareness is free.
--
Peter

Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.


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Pop said:
That's a load of BS. Runs fine here always has. No one I talk to
around here has any problems with it. But then we manage our
machines properly. Pop
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Who is "we?"

Norton has gone from the AV of choice, to the bottom of the barrell.
There are viruses I'd rather have on my computers than Norton/Symantec
products.

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
 
In
Hannis said:
Hi,
Is it necessary for my Norton Anti Virus 2005 to be configured with
scanning incoming and outgoing emails from my Outlook Express?
Thanks
Click to expand...

I would turn *off* the email scanning both in and out. If you check
Norton's site, they even admit that scanning is not necessary.

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
Lovin life on Mercer Island 8^)
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."
In memory of a true friend, MVP Alex Nichol (1935-2005)
 
Thanks for the terrific response.

Peter Foldes said:
Email scanning can create multiple problems in Outlook Express. These
include duplicate emails,missing emails,identity corruption,breaking of
links, outgoing mail not being received, etc,etc,etc,. No need to use email
scanning You resident Norton Anti Virus will still protect you. Just a very
few remarks on this below.


Norton has become
quite intrusive in recent months and many of us now regard it as litttle
more than a virus itself and refuse to install it on any system we own or
maintain.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (Shell, IE/OE) & Security

Norton and any AV email scanning engine is a useless feature that can and
will cause problems in OE . Turn it off you will still be protected with
your resident AV

Tom Koch, MVP for IE/Outlook Express
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com
or http://www.insideoe.com
Awareness is free.
--
Peter

Please reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others.


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Ron Bogart said:
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I would turn *off* the email scanning both in and out. If you check
Norton's site, they even admit that scanning is not necessary.

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
Lovin life on Mercer Island 8^)
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."
In memory of a true friend, MVP Alex Nichol (1935-2005)
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Bob,

Would you please reference that page on the Norton site where they admit
that scanning is not necessary. I would really like to know. Norton must be
"turning a corner" to say such a statement.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Leigh
 
In
Hannis said:
Is it necessary for my Norton Anti Virus 2005 to be configured
with
scanning incoming and outgoing emails from my Outlook Express?
Click to expand...


No, it is not necessary, and some people have reported problems
in doing so.
 
In
Leigh said:
Bob,

Would you please reference that page on the Norton site where they
admit that scanning is not necessary. I would really like to know.
Norton must be "turning a corner" to say such a statement.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Leigh
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http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...6d4e006aaa94/4ba5fc8ef939c44c88256c7500723cf0

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
Lovin life on Mercer Island 8^)
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."
In memory of a true friend, MVP Alex Nichol (1935-2005)
 
In
Leigh said:
Many thanks for the reference. I appreciate your help.

Leigh
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NP - Hope it helps.

--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
Lovin life on Mercer Island 8^)
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."
In memory of a true friend, MVP Alex Nichol (1935-2005)
 
And redundancy is bad because ... ?

In 1969 Apollo 11 flew to the moon with as many redundant systems as weight
(mass?) would allow. I'm sure Neil Armstrong wasn't unhappy with that
design.
 
And do you wear 3 left shoes because of Apollo 11? Sometimes an idea is
STUPID, and should be called such.
 
No I don't wear 3 left shoes.

I guess I was challenging the notion in several replies that redundancy was
intrinsically unnecessary or even bad.

Redundancy takes a variety of forms, and what level to accept is up to each
user.

For myself, I'll sit in my apartment behind the door with two locks, work at
my computer powered via UPS (AC main + battery), start my programs by
whichever I prefer of the dozen or so methods XP provides (user-friendly
alternatives or redundancies?). If I hear a mouse in my ceiling, I'll set
several identical traps, and if I see a cockroach I'll stomp him even though
he would eventually have eaten the poison bait anyway. And if the girlfriend
is frisky when I go to bed, I might just use a condom as well as a
spermicide.

Don't count me as a Norton fanatic just because I replied - I've bashed my
head against the Indian brick wall too many times to be called that.

But I do believe that e-mail scanning saved me once when Auto-Protect had
disabled itself and I hadn't noticed the crossed icon in the taskbar (before
SP2's balloon tip).

Cheers
 

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