in theory its supposed to work that way
in practice, the email scanning intercepts the traaffic & slows down the
response to the server so much that the server times out and drops the
connection
resident portion of the AV catches the file on opening anyway using the same
..defs that the email scanner would use >> email scanning doesnt do much

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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters

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"BP" <replytoall@only.net> wrote in message
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> "Tom Koch" <please-post2newsgroup-only@insideoe.com> wrote in message
> news:%23L4p8FF8FHA.3752@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > "BP" <replytoall@only.net> wrote in message
> > news:8dSdnZ7zgu7G_BnenZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d@conversent.n et
> >> Good to know.
> >> But I would still like to know why I can't change the ports in OE.
> >
> > But you said that you did change the ports in OE. The problem is not in
OE
> > but in your antivirus. OE doesn't care what port you use, but your ISP's
> > mail server does. If the server is not allowing connections on any ports
> > other than 25 and 110, then you cannot expect OE to connect, or any
other
> > email program for that matter.
> >
> > I'm not familiar with the specifics of AVG antivirus, but if it's
similar
> > to most AV scanners it creates a proxy server on your machine. The proxy
> > connects to the ISP on ports 25/110, then OE or any other email client
> > connects to the proxy, not directly to the ISP. So once again, the
problem
> > seems to lie in AVG and not in Outlook Express.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Koch, MVP for IE/Outlook Express
> > http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com
> > or http://www.insideoe.com
> > Awareness is free.
> >
> Thanks Tom. It sounds like I need to configure my ISP account, if
possible,
> to make it work. That explains things. Maybe I'll try it. Maybe not.
> So as I understand it the E-mail scanner is not necessary in scanning for
> viruses? If that's the case I'll just shut it down. I thought it worked
like
> a firewall to catch infected files before the were downloaded into OE.
>
>