Hi guys,
I have McAfee VirusScan 7.0 with the latest DAT/engine files(I update at least once a week), running on Windows 2000 Pro SP3. Vshield is always on as a background scanner, so it catches any virii/worms/trojans, including downloaded ones and via email.
My email client is Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1a, and I've been using it since the first build last month till the build last week or the week before. However, everytime when Vshield detects a virus in one of my email(usually some spam), it will popup as usual, and the detected file is the entire mailbox file("Inbox"). So, if I do anything with this file(clean, deleted, quarantine), the entire mailbox will be lost, rather than just the offending mail. With my previous email client, Eudora Pro 5.2, this did not happen, and only the offending email is deleted/cleaned.
Why is this happening and is there a way to solve it? I've asked around and NAV seems to work correctly with Thunderbird, but I'm reluctant to switch since I already have McAfee installed and all. Does anyone have a clue? Thunderbird, Eudora and most other mail clients should use a same mail/mailbox file structure - i.e. all mail are stored in a single file rather than separate files for separate mail. I'm wondering why McAfee was able to extract the offending mail from the mailbox file from Eudora Pro but not Thunderbird?
Thanks!
I have McAfee VirusScan 7.0 with the latest DAT/engine files(I update at least once a week), running on Windows 2000 Pro SP3. Vshield is always on as a background scanner, so it catches any virii/worms/trojans, including downloaded ones and via email.
My email client is Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1a, and I've been using it since the first build last month till the build last week or the week before. However, everytime when Vshield detects a virus in one of my email(usually some spam), it will popup as usual, and the detected file is the entire mailbox file("Inbox"). So, if I do anything with this file(clean, deleted, quarantine), the entire mailbox will be lost, rather than just the offending mail. With my previous email client, Eudora Pro 5.2, this did not happen, and only the offending email is deleted/cleaned.
Why is this happening and is there a way to solve it? I've asked around and NAV seems to work correctly with Thunderbird, but I'm reluctant to switch since I already have McAfee installed and all. Does anyone have a clue? Thunderbird, Eudora and most other mail clients should use a same mail/mailbox file structure - i.e. all mail are stored in a single file rather than separate files for separate mail. I'm wondering why McAfee was able to extract the offending mail from the mailbox file from Eudora Pro but not Thunderbird?
Thanks!
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