DEAD WRONG! Disable that email scanner and leave it that way! Your PC is
fully protected WITHOUT email scanning provided you keep the resident FILE
SYSTEM scanner current. Here's why - any and EVERY attachment you receive
in email has been encoded so it will go through email. The default method
of doing this, these days, is MIME; other versions include UUEncode and
BinHex. Email servers can only pass "printable characters" and binary files
(pictures, executables, anything that isn't pure text) contains a mix of
printable and non-printable characters. The only way to get these through
email is to encode the attachment so all characters are printable. This
means the file must be DEcoded after reception before it can do anything.
The decode process takes the attachment and writes the decoded output to a
temporary file on the disk. The instant this process finishes and BEFORE
you or your PC can do anything with it, the resident file system scanner in
your AntiVirus application grabs it and scans it. If it's malware, it gets
NAILED right then and there. Emails scanning is entirely redundant, it does
nothing but create problems where none exist. Get rid of it and get rid of
your problems.

Hal
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