Hello Walter, Let me explain why I even brought up this subject. First a bit of back ground. I try to up grade nortons definition files at least twice a week and after this then run a full system scan. Also I have my settings set to stop and ask what to do with the virus both for full system scan and for email scanning. Now here is waht happened. The other night after the massive hit on Yahoo and Debbies list getting swamped with bunches of bogus yahoo alerts, actually viruses, I up loaded the definition files and ran a full system scan, which told me that it had captured four viruses. When I checked in the norton quaranteen list I found four viruses which were caught with the new definition files, but here is my question and concern, there were seven other viruses and only two do I remember norton identifying the week before in incomeing email. In other words there were five unaccounted for files and the only thing I can attribute them to is for finding them in outgoing email. Is there any other way they could have been captured? Ed, At 06:36 PM 3/8/2004 -0600, you wrote: >I am talking about if one is protected. If one is protected, you have auto protect enabled, this will catch any virus >that you attempt to download. If you get a floppy from somebody with a file on it, then you want to scan it before >running it. So if you keep your antivirus files up to date, and you are protected as I said, then there seems no reason >to scan outgoing e -mail. >Walter Siren > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ed Thurston" <thurston@xxxxxxxxxx> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:33 PM >Subject: Re: Help with norton, please? > > >> Hello Walter, >> >> Now I could be wrong, but I think that there are other ways of getting a >> virus. >> >> Does Norton scan files, books and music that we down load from the >> internet? For a number of viruses once they are activated, one of the >> first places they go is to ones address book and then can be attached to >> outgoing messages. >> >> So it just seems like good insurance and a kindness to those in ones >> address book to protect outgoing messages also. >> >> Ed, >> >> At 01:10 PM 3/8/2004 -0600, you wrote: >> >If you are protected, then why protect your outgoing e -mail? I never >> could really understand that one. Besides it >> >slows up your outgoing e -mail too. >> >Walter Siren >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: "Wendy&Pat" <goldador@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:01 PM >> >Subject: Help with norton, please? >> > >> > >> >> Hi. Can someone on here tell me how I can get my outgoing e-mail protected >> >> by Norton? My incoming mail is protected, but I did not see any option on >> >> how to protect my outgoing mail. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Wendy Alling >> >> >> >> -- >> >> To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the >> >subject line. >> >> >> >> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >> the way the list is being run, do not post >> >them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > >> >-- >> >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to >> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. >> > >> >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or >> the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact >> the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > >> >> -- >> To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the >subject line. >> >> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post >them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > >-- >To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > >If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx