Outlook Express virus protection?
Hi all. The two most commonly asked questions by my customers in the past couple of weeks have been.
1 - My Antivirus program was running so how did I get the Yaha.K virus?
2 - Outlook Express won't let me open attachments.
Well, we all know that if virus patterns aren't up to date the latest virus will sneak in.
I've also had to tell many customers that a recent Windows Update (I don't know which one exactly) to Outlook Express 6.0 has added a Security feature that blocks attachments that may potentially contain a virus to be saved or opened.
This feature can be disabled by opening OE60 and going to tools>options>security and unchecking the appropriate box under Virus Protection.
After days of telling people how to disable it I started to think well maybe this is not a bad thing after all. If everyone had it enabled it may have cut down on the recent spread of Yaha.K and the likes.
So here's my question: Is having the OE60 "virus protection" feature enabled a good thing?
Hope to here everyone's opinion.
Bonus question :cool: Will the OE6.0 virus protection "feature" get crippled by the next good virus.