Why are emails empty in outlook 2007 beta

[Guest]

I have just installed the 2007 beta of Microsoft Office. Outlook receives
and sends emails but the content is missing.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Disable AVG email scanning.

 

[Guest]

How do you do that? I am also having this problem.

Rebecca

 

[Guest]

Nevermind. I read other posts and figured out what AVG meant. Now it is
fixed.

Rebecca

 

[Guest]

Hi

If i disable AVG then how do i scan emails...is there a patch that will
allow me to have AVG scanning emails?

 

[Brian Tillman]

If i disable AVG then how do i scan emails...is there a patch that
will allow me to have AVG scanning emails?

There is no need to scan mail, but if you wish, simply disable AVG's
"certify" function.

 

[Guest]

Hi Brett,

I have read a few of he postings and they have all said you don't need to
scan your emails - just a quizzy question: Why, isn't this where most of the
viruses come from?

Also disabled AVG mail scanning but very worried!!

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

If a virus is contained in an email attachment (basically *the* way how
viruses spread via email), then your normal virus scanner will scan it
before opening (Outlook copies an attachment to a temp folder, then
tries to open it. So it's accessing a file on the disk which your normal
AV scanner will always check first).
If there is something phony with the HTML, then your virus scanner isn't
going to be any help anyhow. For phony HTML issues, you are relying on
the Outlook security features. Outlook 2007 goes much further in that
regard than any other Outlook version, as it simply doesn't support HTML
or CSS that could be potentially used for a vulnerability embedded in
the HTML. It also has a phishing filter for emails.

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[Brian Tillman]

I have read a few of he postings and they have all said you don't
need to scan your emails - just a quizzy question: Why, isn't this
where most of the viruses come from?

And on top of what Patrick said, in 95% of all cases, a visual inspection of
the message and the attachment name will tell you if you should toss it
without opening it.

 

[Guest]

Ah - seems it wasn't css in Outlook as the cause of the problem - it seems
that someone is spoofing email headers so that I get all the returns!