[pchelpers] Re: McAfee scans when sending / protocol error

 Why do you say there is no need to scan incoming mail, Ek? It seems like
that would be common sense.
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Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote: Hi Scott EGlnl> Many security experts
advise against scanning all incoming and EGlnl> especially outgoing email.
Ifyou have a clean system and an EGlnl> active antivirus program (i.e. with
afunction usually called EGlnl> "resident" or "background" or "virus shield"
or something like EGlnl> that), that will prevent you from
opening/activatingany EGlnl> malicious code in an email or its attachment. I
have many EGlnl> virus-infected emails in my Junk folder, but they don't
hurtme EGlnl> or anyone else because they have not been activated, and they
EGlnl> can't be; if i were stupid enough to try to open them, my EGlnl>
antivirus program would block that. Well, you probably want to scan at least
the incoming, in order to avoid being a Typhoid Mary, if you're the type to
forward lots of mail. No, there is no need to scan incoming mail (and this
can destroy one's entire Inbox) if one never forwards anything one hasn't
first opened oneself, which i forgot to say in the previous message and
whichwould seem to be something that basic prudence and common sense
require.Unfortunately, common sense has all but disappeared in the computer
age even though, for example, the analogy of email to normal mail is often
quite obvious and pertinent. No one in their right mind would think of
forwarding a package to someone else without opening it first; if the
original sender sent you something erroneously or the wrong thing, you would
be eternally embarrassed and responsible for having sent this on to someone
else! 


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