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And then they can't scan the actual mailbox file itself to remove the embedded attachment, so if something doesn't get caught coming in, it won't get picked up during nightly scans.

Which is why I want to switch from SEP- Oh, it stops them from running it After it's downloaded, and sometimes not even then depending on how new it is , and it lets me know what is in the mailboxes but only after it scans overnight. I'm trying to head things off at the pass, and cover my ass if things do get through. This batch of paranoia comes from SEP not catching a Cryptolocker infection. But, as I was using Avast on my workstation, it caught it coming into the inbox and cleaned it.

That's a weird behavior, at least with ESET and completely the opposite of my experience with it. It either finds viruses and removes them before hitting inbox, or it doesn't detect it all I think it happened once - virustotal helped sort things out.

I'd contact vendors to clarify that. As a side note, you can simply delete inbox file, it only stores offline copies of emails, and you can configure Thunderbird not to store emails locally. No, you're using IMAP so no need to store emails offline, unless of course you're on the move all the time with poor internet access.

We have to search through our messages, filter, etc, which in Thunderbird requires a local copy. So not synchronizing messages is out of this situation. I am in the research of pretty the same thing. Any advices? We wound up going with Avast to block things coming in. Brand Representative for Avast Business. Haha, blast from the past indeed!

This article explains the settings available in the Privacy panel of the Thunderbird OptionsPreferencesSettings window. Table of Contents1 Mail Search Support Search. Home Thunderbird Customize controls, Security panel. If safe mode or other adjustments suggest that antivirus may be causing your problem, you have the following choices: Adjust the exclusions in the antivirus software settings to stop the problem.

Inform the antivirus vendor, and be persistent in getting past a canned response that their software is not at fault. Find a different antivirus software or vendor that offers more reliable service.

Please see the sections above before proceeding. Installed but it interfered with sending emails. Thunderbird v Thus the mail was not sent. No apparent tweaks worked. When Panda uninstalled, Thunderbird was back to normal.

We are aware that this approach may not be the most intuitive for our users and we are currently treating it as a bug. I have taken the freedom to quote your email to "bump up" our bug report and I have also raised the severity of the bug. This will prevent email from sending or receiving properly when Email Protection is enabled. Disable the email scanning option in Vipre. Virusbuster [ getsatisfaction report ] Web Sweeper bug Bug report Trend Micro Instructions to exclude , SUMO report , bug Bug report Others wanted, please add Also, several products have caused pop download errors or slowness if incoming mail is scanned [43].

This is not proof that these products can't have problems AVG Antivirus - revised from [44] "[AVG] are no longer going to support the Thunderbird plugin because of the frequent updates of Thunderbird.

AVG may cause slow downloading of pop mail [45]. I'm using the global protection to protect me from anything that could be launched from a mail. Although the security suite is another matter. Others wanted, please add. Folder names must finish with a backslash. NOTE, if you have customized profile or account locations for mail, then you must exclude your custom locations. McAfee cannot fix what they do not know about.

If you are uncertain that McAfee is the cause, you can test whether something started during Thunderbird or Windows startup is involved: Start MS-Windows in safe mode With Windows in safe mode, start in safe mode. So isn't my new problem in a bug Thunderbird? Answer: No, typically not. Antivirus and firewall products are often tightly linked to little details in the software it is monitoring eg Thunderbird , and which makes them susceptible to breakage or incompatibility from Thunderbird updates.

It is the vendor of product X who bears responsibility to fix the problem in such cases. Disconnected from the internet. Started Thunderbird. It didn't lockup. Reconnected to the internet. Mozilla VPN Get protection beyond your browser, on all your devices. Product Promise Learn how each Firefox product protects and respects your data. Firefox Relay Sign up for new accounts without handing over your email address.

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