Email scaning

GT60

Hi how do i scan an e mail attachment before i open it or is it already done for me via my Norton?

Thanks

RussJK

Norton should scan it AFAIK. Still, if you are concerned:

Download Sandboxie (http://www.sandboxie.com) and install it. Then run your email program through sandboxie, and open the attachment in that. If it does turn out to be malicious, then the only the sandbox will be infected (and can easily be deleted).

I wish I had sandboxie back in the days...

GT60

Thanks for that
i saved the file to the desktop and scaned it with norton and malwarebite both came up ok

debitcardmayhem

GT60 wrote: »

Thanks for that
i saved the file to the desktop and scaned it with norton and malwarebite both came up ok

Depending on your email client, Norton will scan it as it is read(ie as soon the mail protocol being used is opened), if you are using webmail within your browser eg IE or Firefox or Opera etc then it will scan it when you save it. My Norton flags up whenever I check my email using Thunderbird. No AV is failsafe but Norton is pretty good (and it has pulse updates too, but there will be some popping by soon that say get rid of the bloated,memory hogging hateful Norton and use "Av[a,i][r-s]*" the ones who understand regular expressions will understand and those who don't will still say the same )