Outlook 2003 locks up

[mark81955]

I am using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and McAfee Internet Security Suite
v7.0..
When I open Outlook, send/receive goes to 25% and then freezes... Soon after
that Outlook stops responding..

Has anybody had this problem abd/or does anybody know how to fix this
problem...

Mark

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and McAfee Internet Security
Suite v7.0..
When I open Outlook, send/receive goes to 25% and then freezes...
Soon after that Outlook stops responding..

Disable the email integration of McAfee and try again.

 

[mark81955]

Ok that seems to work.. Now how do I scan my email for viruses with McAfee ?

Mark

 

[Brian Tillman]

Ok that seems to work.. Now how do I scan my email for viruses with
McAfee ?

You don't. It's a shear waste of time. Consider: McAfee always has Vshield
running (or at least it should) as the on-access scanner. Thus, if you were
to open any infected attachment, VirusScan would catch it at that point.
Moreover, if a message comes in and is infected, 95% of the time you'll know
just by looking at the sender, subject, and attachment name. Just delete
the message without opening it. Thus, no inbound mail scanning is needed;
it's redundant. As to outbound scanning, how can an infected file get on
your machine in the first place without having been detected? If it's
detectable by the outbound mail scanner, it would have been detectable by
the on-access scanner that would have discovered it when it was first
created on your system. Thus, outbound scanning is redundant.

 

[mark81955]

OK..
Thanks again for your help !

You don't. It's a shear waste of time. Consider: McAfee always has
Vshield running (or at least it should) as the on-access scanner. Thus,
if you were to open any infected attachment, VirusScan would catch it at
that point. Moreover, if a message comes in and is infected, 95% of the
time you'll know just by looking at the sender, subject, and attachment
name. Just delete the message without opening it. Thus, no inbound mail
scanning is needed; it's redundant. As to outbound scanning, how can an
infected file get on your machine in the first place without having been
detected? If it's detectable by the outbound mail scanner, it would have
been detectable by the on-access scanner that would have discovered it
when it was first created on your system. Thus, outbound scanning is
redundant.