-=PCTechTalk=- Re: outlook express question
- From: The Keyboard Cowboy <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Cris <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:33:29 -0400
You might want to check that. I believe my Norton AV (part of the
Systems suite) updates every four hours by default.
Regards from
Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
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Cincinnati, Ohio - Scottsdale, Arizona
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Monday, 6/13/2005, @ 11:32:32 AM EST
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:53:31 -0400, Cris wrote:
| from Cris:
| What is a 'good' anti-virus program?
| I had Norton on my old computer.
| I know there are a lot of people who don't like Norton, but it
is
| a good program.
| One of it's drawbacks is that it ususally only updates
once/week,
| unless you go to their web site to update it. Potentially, new
| worms could be created every day, and the anti-virus might not
| have the protection against them. They are also getting more
| sophisticated. Also, if a spam happens to open in the preview
| pane, it can send messages back home. Or, you could read it in
| plain text. But I don't read my mail in plain text.
|
| I would rather be safe than sorry. I also had never been
infected
| this way, but I switched as another safety net. It took me a
| little while to get used to it, but now, I wouldn't go back to
| using the preview pane.
|
|
|
http://www.sawtoothdistortion.com/Articles/HidePreviewPaneinOutlookE.h
tm
| l
|
| http://www.hoax-slayer.com/beware-preview-pane.html
|
| there are numerous other articles explaining why it is safest to
| turn it off.
|
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| By Al Fasoldt
| Copyright © 2002, Al Fasoldt
| Copyright © 2002, The Post-Standard
|
| I frustrated a lot of Windows users when I goofed when trying to
| explain how to turn off the Outlook Express message preview
pane,
| which displays entire messages without requiring you to open
them
| separately. Thanks to a couple of helpful readers, here's a much
| better explanation. Next week I'll cover the same function in
| Outlook, the "other" mail program from Microsoft.
| When Outlook Express was originally designed, viruses and worms
| weren't the big problem they are today. Users probably wanted to
| turn off the preview pane so they could see a lot of mail all at
| once. But today the big problem is the script-based virus or
worm
| that sneaks into Windows
| computers when mail is opened. (This is not related to the
danger
| of attachments.
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Don
| To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 12:09 AM
| Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: outlook express question
|
|
| If you have a good anti-virus program this is not a problem. I
| read ALL of my email in preview pane and never get viruses.
|
| Don
|
|
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