[RT] Norton and Outlook Express Problems / Eudora

[Ric Ingram <ringram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:31 04/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
>  Anyone,
>
>I have Norton, it is current with virus updates, and I found through this
>conversation about the loveletter virus, that it was attached to a email.  My
>puzzlement is that it is there, getting past Norton.  Norton has all the 
>options
>positive for scanning email, etc.  Any thoughts as to why?
>(I do not have Outlook installed, or MS email, but am using Netscape).
>
>Dan

Good question.    Ask Norton.

To avoid repeated system corruption, I have switched from Outlook Express 
to Eudora 5.0.    I had occasional peculiar glitches and every 2 to 5 weeks 
a variable set of major system problems including frustrating delays.

Finally, after fixing IE, reinstalling Windows, upgrading IE and OE, I 
finally pinned the problems down to OE itself and its tight integration 
with IE.     Whew!  I was just about to go for the FDISK reformat of my 
main drive and all the software reinstallation that entails.      The 
clincher was that outlook off an old Office 97 disk seemed to fix the problem.

I find Eudora better in many ways than OE and in the registered variant I 
am using it is free.

I do not know, but I guess that since it is not tightly integrated with IE, 
I could switch browsers without causing problems for email use.

Also I am not at risk of being targeted by OE specific viruses - as the 
most common email software, probably the favourite target of virus writers.

I particularly like the background polling of the six email addresses I use 
and that retrieving and sending to multiple servers operates in parallel.

Norton found and allowed me to quarantine the virus you mentioned while 
using Eudora.

There is the occasional frustration with slow cross application copying and 
pasting but this is the only concern I have.

For those considering such a move Eudora imports old OE emails very easily.

Since the switch to Eudora and removal of OE, I have had little or no 
system problems.

Hope this helps anyone with similar symptoms.

Regards, Ric.



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