Brian Tillman said:
It is normal for a POP client to download and delete messages. ALter your
account properties to leave a copy of the downloaded messages on the
server. Tools>Account Settings>Change>More Settings>Advanced tab>Leave a
copy of messages on the server.
There is never a need to scan incoming mail and it's often a bad idea.
I guess you were not around when Love Letter hit were you? If you WERE, do
you remember all the trouble it caused?
That statement is disingenuous at best, and borderline stupid. Things like
Love Letter and that ilk are exactly the reason WHY you should scan incoming
mail.
I ran our network and Exchange Server with 240 users. It just so happens I
went in early that morning and luckily there were only a few others there
when I noticed a weird attachment from one of my users. As soon as the
second one hit, I turned to our other senior IT guy, and told him to lock
everything down because we were infected. Fortuitously, I had caught it, and
limited our infection to 7 total users. I even sat down with one of our
programmers and had an in-house fix 2 hours before the AV houses had one. We
got lucky, a great many others did not.
See, my bosses thought like you did. They didn't want to pony up the money
to make sure all our users were protected. NO, the current AV's at the time
didn't stop it, but with the heuristic scanning and so forth, they may have
caught others, which is the point. The reason the infection propagated in
our company, and others was that users most generally open the emails
without checking. If the problem can be caught before the user can open it,
that is the whole reason for this option to exist.
