I am using internet secuity 2011. I just had my email hacked, and messages sent (apparently) to all my contacts.
I am using Outlook 2002, on a DSL line (Incoing port 995, outgoing 465.) However, I cannot get the toolbar for anti spam to load. Does that matter? The post I found below indicates it should not. Where do I go from here?
Re: NIS misses email virus??Hi dave667,
Just to expand on what floplot said, port 143 cannot be scanned. However, incoming email scanning is the vestigial tail of the antivirus world. It really is no longer necessary (if it ever was) since any time you access a file in an attachment it will be scanned by Auto-Protect anyway. Email scanning would not catch anything that Auto-Protect wouldn't also catch, so you are no less safe with email scanning disabled. And, of course, you could always save the attached file to disk and run a custom scan before opening it, if you wanted to check it before accessing it. Since Incoming Email Scanning cannot work with the port you use, you should disable the feature in the Norton Network Settings to prevent any possible slowdowns this might cause in retrieving your messages.