Windows mail and Antivirus software

[Guest]

Hi Folks

Does your AV product have to integerate with Windows mail? Or is the
case no, as emails are stored as flat .eml files your normal file av scanner
will check the mail at that level?


Ta

 

[Billusa]

Correct -- emails are stored as flat .eml files & your normal file av
scanner
will check the mail at that level, when they are written.

Cheers!

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Hi Folks

Does your AV product have to integerate with Windows mail? Or is the
case no, as emails are stored as flat .eml files your normal file av
scanner
will check the mail at that level?


Ta

Setting your anti-virus is a good way to develop problems and has no
beneficial aspect. Even when not set to scan email the resident part of the
anti-virus will prevent you from opening or saving a virus.

 

[Steve Cochran]

As Frank indicates, your AV is going to be in memory (mostly) so you don't
need to have the "scan email" option as that is going to screw up the
functionality of WinMail (the same caveats apply as indicated here:
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3 for OE).

You can independently use the AV programs to scan the eml and nws files in
the message store directories and it won't screw up the functionality of
Windows Mail and result in the loss of all the messages in a folder as it
did in OE, because the messages are now individually stored and not stored
en masse.

That said, turn email scanning off, because otherwise the AV and antispam
programs try and interpolate themselves between the OS and WinMail and
INVARIABLY screw up the functionality.

steve

 

[mail]

Correct -- emails are stored as flat .eml files & your normal file av
scanner