cactus wrote:

> Does somebody knows how to made that mails are scanned on Mozilla ?
> On other browsers there is an automatic scanning process.


Well Cactus, that depends on the software.

I don't know how PC-Cillin works, but other Anti-Virus software usually
works in one of two ways, either scanning the files that are created in
the TEMP directory while the email and/or attachment is being opened,
and those that act as the POP client for the emails and relays those to
the email program.

The first don't actually scan the emails as they arrive, they scan the
files that are created by those emails for virii.  They are effective
with programs like Outlook Express that saves the messages in the TEMP
directory as it opens them.

The other types act as the POP client and as a POP server for the email
program.  This means that if you checked your account settings for your
email program, you will see the server was the local machine.  This is
because the AV program is waiting for the email client to request email,
then it will connect to your POP server (the actual one) and get the
email, scan it, then hand it to the email program as if it was the POP
server.

You would need to check how PC-Cillin works, if it works like the first,
it shouldn't be a problem, but if it is one of the second, you may have
to manually configure the email server settings in Mozilla for it to us
the AV program for it's POP server.

Thanks,

Chris LeBlanc


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