Re: slightly OT : norton AV 2003

From: NeoSadist (neosad1st_at_charter.net)
Date: 12/28/03


Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:05:28 -0700

Walter Mitty wrote:

>
> Folks : please help. I have norton AV installed and its constantly popping
> up with a dialog telling me its found an email with a virus : how can I
> stop it doing that each and every time?

Uh, by disabling it? By changing the settings?

> My email addresses are all spammed
> and since I have 5 emails, I have a lot of junk (some with virus attached)
> coming in.

And you want it to stop telling you this, or stop protecting you? I'd say
that most of this is your ISP's fault. Tell them that either they start
protecting you from these spam with viruses in them, or you'll change
ISP's.

> I'm running a spam protector too, and that stops when Norton
> pops up the modal dialog. Thanks for any advice,

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