Email Scanner, free edition

[jdharm]

In the free edition, Scan Settings page, "Scan emails" checkbox.

I get a warning that says "If one infected email is discovered, ALL emails in that database will be removed." Just to verify the meaning of this I checked the online help and it says that the email scanner will scan email databases such as Outlook *.pst files.

So, this seems to be saying that if some zombie emails me one infected file then OnGuard will delete the entire five years of emails I have saved in my email database.

What did I miss? This sounds a bit like burning down my house because I saw a mouse in the kitchen. Kinda overkill isn't it? Could someone clarify this warning or verify that I understand it right?

[BT-X]

yes you are correct.

from my understanding, when you received your email via outlook. it will automatically save it to your computer.

for example:

outlook have 4 box to save your email (outlook use more, but I only use 4 to explain).

The way that outlook save an email is like this

it put some part on box no 1 and some on box no 2 and some on box no 3 and some on box no 4. So they tear out 1 email and store it in 4 different boxes.

If 1 email is infected then all boxes need to be removed (because it may be infected as well)

Therefore it is recommended not to turn on that settings to prevent overkill.

hope this help.