Dear Val and Malcolm,
No pictures for this one, hopefully makes sense, this is not scaremongering just providing a bit of information regarding the limitations of some anti-virus programs that people might not be aware of.
Nev
A little light reading for bedtimeA note on the email attachment warning from James earlier. The email connection between a client computer / tablet and the internet mail server, can be either non-encrypted ( plain text ) or encrypted. With the former, a non-encrypted connection, the anti-virus program can scan the incoming message and/or attachment for malicious programs and then deal with them. When the connection is encrypted many of the installed anti-virus programs are unable to decrypt the message, in effect cannot scan for malicious programs.
So, with the encrypted connection an attachment needs to be saved locally to the hard disk. Some anti-virus products will scan at this time, if not, then right click the mouse button on the file and select scan. The other alternatives are; to disable encryption, but in the case of gmail accounts this is not possible or use an anti-virus program that can scan encrypted connections.
Nev
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