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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
"Amrykid" wrote in message
... I have McAfee (lastest version) and I wanted to have It scan emails from WLMail 8.1. Does anyone know how to do it? Don't ever scan email with any anti-virus. It is redundant and causes problems. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM http://www.fjsmjs.com Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email. |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
"Amrykid" wrote in message ... I have McAfee (lastest version) and I wanted to have It scan emails from WLMail 8.1. Does anyone know how to do it? Don't ever scan email with any anti-virus. It is redundant and causes problems. Ah, now that is the Microsoft we all know and love. The best way to deal with a threat is to deny it access to what it threatens. Anything less, risks that threat taking its intended action. I don't want to wait to have email checked until I open the email. That is not acceptable. Doesn't anyone in Redmond take security seriously? -- Iron Feliks |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
"Feliks Dzerzhinsky" wrote in message
... Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote: "Amrykid" wrote in message ... I have McAfee (lastest version) and I wanted to have It scan emails from WLMail 8.1. Does anyone know how to do it? Don't ever scan email with any anti-virus. It is redundant and causes problems. Ah, now that is the Microsoft we all know and love. The best way to deal with a threat is to deny it access to what it threatens. Anything less, risks that threat taking its intended action. I don't want to wait to have email checked until I open the email. That is not acceptable. Doesn't anyone in Redmond take security seriously? The anti-virus running in its normal resident mode without email scanning still scans every file you try to open or save. What it does not do is interpose the proxy responsible for screwing up email. I don't work for Microsoft. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM http://www.fjsmjs.com Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email. |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
And of course you know what you are talking about. Removing the email scanning option is the best thing that you can do to avoid future problems with the email client. Stopping\Disabling the email scanning option does NOT leave your email client unprotected. It is only a layer on top of the actual scan. Your AV without email scanning will still work and keep protecting as it should.
-- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Feliks Dzerzhinsky" wrote in message ... Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote: "Amrykid" wrote in message ... I have McAfee (lastest version) and I wanted to have It scan emails from WLMail 8.1. Does anyone know how to do it? Don't ever scan email with any anti-virus. It is redundant and causes problems. Ah, now that is the Microsoft we all know and love. The best way to deal with a threat is to deny it access to what it threatens. Anything less, risks that threat taking its intended action. I don't want to wait to have email checked until I open the email. That is not acceptable. Doesn't anyone in Redmond take security seriously? -- Iron Feliks |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
"Feliks Dzerzhinsky" wrote in message
... Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote: "Amrykid" wrote in message ... I have McAfee (lastest version) and I wanted to have It scan emails from WLMail 8.1. Does anyone know how to do it? Don't ever scan email with any anti-virus. It is redundant and causes problems. Ah, now that is the Microsoft we all know and love. The best way to deal with a threat is to deny it access to what it threatens. Anything less, risks that threat taking its intended action. I don't want to wait to have email checked until I open the email. That is not acceptable. Doesn't anyone in Redmond take security seriously? Even the AV folks say there is no need to scan email. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
Peter Foldes wrote:
And of course you know what you are talking about. Removing the email scanning option is the best thing that you can do to avoid future problems with the email client. Stopping\Disabling the email scanning option does NOT leave your email client unprotected. It is only a layer on top of the actual scan. Your AV without email scanning will still work and keep protecting as it should. Relying on the last line of defense is fine, only as long as it works. We have always scanned incoming email and have had no problems. We've never had a machine infected by a virus and aim to keep it that way. -- Iron Feliks |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
"Feliks Dzerzhinsky" wrote in message
... Relying on the last line of defense is fine, only as long as it works. Replicating the last line of defence is fine, only as long as it works. If your virus scanner for email is the same as your active virus scanner, there's no point in doing the same scan twice. We have always scanned incoming email and have had no problems. We've never had a machine infected by a virus and aim to keep it that way. Sure, scan your incoming email - at the mail server, and with a different virus scanner. That's a great option, if you're a corporation with a centralised email server and processing resources to spare on scanning there. Don't scan your incoming email at the mail client using the same virus scanner that runs whenever you open a file. That's just a waste of processor and disk time, and contributes to any number of problems with duplicated mail, hung sessions, etc. Alun. ~~~~ -- Texas Imperial Software | Web: http://www.wftpd.com/ 23921 57th Ave SE | Blog: http://msmvps.com/alunj/ Woodinville WA 98072-8661 | WFTPD, WFTPD Pro are Windows FTP servers. Fax/Voice +1(425)807-1787 | Try our NEW client software, WFTPD Explorer. |
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
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McAfee and Windows Live Mail 8.1
"Feliks Dzerzhinsky" wrote in message
... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 lid wrote: Don't scan your incoming email at the mail client using the same virus scanner that runs whenever you open a file. That's just a waste of processor and disk time, and contributes to any number of problems with duplicated mail, hung sessions, etc. Alun. ~~~~ Scanning incoming email at the client means the user never gets the opportunity to open the file. It also slows down the downloading (or sending) of mail and causes timeouts. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM http://www.fjsmjs.com Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email. |