Outlook express and changed pop address

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Researching a strange problem whereby a clients outlook express settings are
changing - the POP server address was changed from pop.xxxxx.co.uk to
127.0.0.1. I corrected this about 4 weeks ago and this morning the same has
happened again. The machine has been checked with all the usual
spyware/virus checks.

Its strange that the address is changed to the machines loop back address ..

thanks

Geoff
 
Researching a strange problem whereby a clients outlook express
settings are changing - the POP server address was changed from
pop.xxxxx.co.uk to 127.0.0.1. I corrected this about 4 weeks ago and
this morning the same has happened again. The machine has been checked
with all the usual spyware/virus checks.

Its strange that the address is changed to the machines loop back
address ..
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its a bug containd in certain AV software packages.. common with AVG and
older verions of norton..
 
Researching a strange problem whereby a clients outlook express
settings are changing - the POP server address was changed from
pop.xxxxx.co.uk to 127.0.0.1. I corrected this about 4 weeks ago
and this morning the same has happened again. The machine has
been checked with all the usual spyware/virus checks.

Its strange that the address is changed to the machines loop
back address ..
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This is normal for certain AV packages that install a local proxy
program to filter emails.
 
Frazer Jolly Goodfellow said:
This is normal for certain AV packages that install a local proxy
program to filter emails.
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In that case as they have AVG installed that may be responsible

as ever, appreciate the comments and compliments of the season to you!

Geoff
 
Nonsense.
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fraid not.. avg goes tits up every once and awhile and changes the pop3
address to 127 etc as did earlier versions of norton... neither program
needs to do this to virus check mail!
 
Cøllap§ed Lûng said:
its a bug containd in certain AV software packages.. common with AVG
and older verions of norton..
Click to expand...

With Avast (in the past), it wasn't really a bug, but a procedure they used
to create a proxy and allow the AV package to scan the OE e-mail. The
recent versions no longer use this process, however.
 
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