Re: Virus/adware/spyware -- is there all-in-one protection in one program?

From: Alun Jones [MSFT] (alunj_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/25/04

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    "Lionel Fourquaux" <use.reply.to@no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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    > Alun Jones [MSFT] wrote:
    > > The ones I've used don't work this way very well. They generally cause
    more
    > > problems, in terms of lost email, duplicated email, hugely padded
    headers,
    > > etc, than they solve in terms of viruses defeated. That would seem to
    be
    > > why some knowledge base articles for those antivirus programs blithely
    > > suggest turning off the email scanning.
    >
    > That's interesting. I had never heard of such issues. Do you know
    > whether there is a precise cause for these problems?

    I refer the honourable gentleman to
    http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2001060516275506

    Note the suggested solutions for intermittent problems are to disable NAV,
    get or send the email that's causing the problem, then re-enable NAV.

    After a few such dances (and the horrendous piles of duplicated and/or lost
    emails generated), it becomes clear that you're not all that interested in
    re-enabling NAV scanning of email.

    Alun.
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