[pchelpers] Re: Keep it simple please


Some email programs encode/encrypt/compress email.  Outlook Express
does, as I recall, so scanning the email database wouldn't necessarily
be definitive, although, of course, it can't hurt.

Pen, I would turn on the plug-in, and yes, the heuristics is what I was
talking about.

--Scott.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Durham
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 8:40 pm

> To answer your last question- if you are set to scan incoming 
> email, then it is checked after coming from your modem and 
> before being saved to disk. If your program won't do that for 
> some reason, just remember emails are stored on your hard 
> drive in file form. Doing a file scan of the drive will cover 
> that along with the other files.

> tactilelady wrote:

> > Another thing and please don't  lol. I have my AVG. set to 
> scan all in 
> > coming mail as well as out I want to know three things. Ist 
> should I 
> > check where its has use outlook express 5_plug in? And there is a 
> > place that says heuristics is that the extra security Scott was 
> > talking about? If it is why won't it stay checked? The last 
> question I 
> > can't figure out how to scan a e-mail. Since I thought avg was all 
> > reading doing it I have never learned how to do it myself.

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