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[Toddchuk]

I read this here:

"Try this fix for WM sluggishness:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72674-windows-mail-slow.html

If that doesn't fix it, your antivirus is probably interfering with WM.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)"

I'm using Avast anti-virus (recomended at that link BTW).

Two questions: 1) what EXACTLY should my setting in Avast with Windows Mail
(Internet mail protection off?? Outlook protection off??) and 2) Won't this
leave me vunerable to viruses etc? With avast "resident providers" for
internet mail and outllok shut off, what EXACTLY is protecting me form
viruses??

Thanks

 

[Guest]

I read this here:

"Try this fix for WM sluggishness:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72674-windows-mail-slow.html

If that doesn't fix it, your antivirus is probably interfering with WM.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)"

I'm using Avast anti-virus (recomended at that link BTW).

Two questions: 1) what EXACTLY should my setting in Avast with Windows
Mail
(Internet mail protection off?? Outlook protection off??) and 2) Won't
this
leave me vunerable to viruses etc? With avast "resident providers" for
internet mail and outllok shut off, what EXACTLY is protecting me form
viruses??

Thanks

In the free version of avast!, if you used the standard install, it's easier
to
uninstall it, then do a custom install that tells it to leave out the part
that
scans email.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

http://www.techtalkz.com/windows-vista-all/94480-avast-email-scanning.html

If you don't do email scanning, it just takes a little longer to find
incoming
viruses, but you'll find then when they try to leave the email.

 

[Toddchuk]

Spoke to teh folks at Avast, they STRONGLY advise against following the
"advice" in the Vista link.

 

[Toddchuk]

Thanks, but Avast STRONGLY advises against that. Says it leaves your system
"vulnerable".

Going to try switching to "Thunderbird" e-mail program and see how that works.
http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/thunderbird/ Doubt it coud be any worse than
Win-mail which has also totally fragged my contacts list as well(another
common problem).

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The Avast folks are misinformed. Ask them if they have heard of "real time"
protection? It has nothing to do with email scanning, but it monitors every
disk access, whether it be a 'save' or a file 'open'. Emails can't do any harm
unless they are opened or saved, which is when the real time protection
kicks in.

Symantec (Norton) is a recognized leader in the antivirus field,
and they originated the email scanning concept. However, they
admit that it is redundant and unnecessary:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...88256c7500723cf0?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Spoke to teh folks at Avast, they STRONGLY advise against following the
"advice" in the Vista link.

You must be talking to low-tier phone answerers who don't really know
anything. Email scanning should be turned off in any program. It adds a
proxy between the mail program and the server which will, sooner or later,
cause problems.