AV scanning is redundant and AV companies like to tout their ability to scan
incoming and outgoing mail to prey upon scared consumers.
1. AV scanning does nothing to enhance email security. Your on-access
realtime scanner catches anything malicious when you open that attachment
you know you shouldn't have opened, but are just too curious to resist, in
your incoming mail.
2. If you are relying on outgoing scanning for viruses, you are about 2
steps too late - you can't send infected mail if your scanner did its job
properly and caught the baddie using the realtime scanner. Sending an
infected mail means your entire system is infected - bzzt! Too late for
that paltry outgoing scanner to solve anything.
As for why it is bad, AV "intercepts" the transmission between your incoming
server and your mail client in order to "inspect" the mail. It will often
prevent the command from being sent to the server that this mail has been
received and no need to send it again and again. Ergo, you get multiple
copies of your mail in your inbox.
The same goes for outgoing mail - the AV intercepts the mail, inspects it,
and munges the command telling your mail server that the mail has already
been sent, thus allowing the server to resend over and over again.
By the way, Outlook Express is not a part of Office and has its own news
groups, plus a very helpful site -
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com - check
for your problem there.
--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Pam Besteder asked:
| OK, great so I learned that AV means anti-virus, yeah. I'll look
| into that. But wouldn't that kinda defeat the purpose of having email
| scanning on the AV if I have to disable it just to send a document by
| email?
|
| Here's a question, what does the email scanning have to do with
| sending the document twice?
|
| Can you offer any technical reason for that? Is it because the AV
| doesn't like it when a document is sent by email from within an
| application because it thinks it's a bug or something?
|
|
|
| "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| That's going to depend on the antivirus software you use. If you
|| don't know that, I'd suggest you talk to a friend who really does
|| know about computers (not one who says they do but doesn't his butt
|| from a hole in the ground) or take it to a computer technician.
||
|| BTW - Publisher has its own newsgroups. We don't have to be clumped
|| into a Office.misc category.
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|| --
||
|| JoAnn Paules
|| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
||
||
||
|| message ||| Hi
|||
||| That doesn't help without instructions on how to do that.
||| What is it and where it is and how do I turn it off?
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|||| Turn off your AV email scanning.
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
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|||| After furious head scratching, Pam Besteder asked:
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||||| Publisher 2003
||||| Outlook Express 6
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||||| "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
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|||||| Which version of Publisher, which version of Outlook/Outlook
|||||| Express?
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|||||| JoAnn Paules
|||||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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|||||| ||||||| All of them. Every time.
||||||| I even tested it on sending it to myself. And got it twice!
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||||||| It's very annoying.
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||||||| "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
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|||||||| I've never heard that happening before. Is it all recipients or
|||||||| just one or
|||||||| two?
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|||||||| ||||||||| Hi
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||||||||| Whenever I create a document in Micorosft Publisher and
||||||||| choose to send the
||||||||| document by email, the recipient always gets it twice!
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||||||||| Why does this happen and how can I tell it to stop? By the
||||||||| way, the same
||||||||| thing happens when I send a .pdf by email also.
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||||||||| Thanks
