I need to buy anti-virus software. thinking whether Symantec can scan yahoo free mail account, kill yahoo mail account virus. yahoo is providing spam detect and scan attachment. but does that helpful in total protection? is symantec able to perform scanning/killing virus to oulook likewise to yahoo free email account? is yahoo anti-virus(free acount) save/sufficent already? thanks.:) : %26gt;
Is yahoo Free email Pop3%26 smtp? or http instead? symantec protects onlyPOP3 and SMTP compatible email client?computers
I am a computer tech by trade, but am not sure how safe or unsafe yahoo's email system is. I don't think that you can get an anti-virus program to scan yahoo email because it is web-based. But, I would generally say you don't need to worry about viruses and such with yahoo. It does have the attachment scanner built-in, in addition to this, I would imagine that yahoo has on their mail servers virus detection software that scans all incoming and outgoing email.
Anti-virus programs like symantec will scan outlook or any other POP3/SMTP mail programs but not web-based email.
In addition to this, you shouldn't open any mail from people you don't know, just delete it or mark it as spam. If you do get a virus or trojan horse, if your anti-virus software on your computer is up to date, it should be able to detect it and get rid of it in most instances. It is important to keep your virus definitions up to date your anti-virus software is only as good as it's virus definitions file.
Is yahoo Free email Pop3%26 smtp? or http instead? symantec protects onlyPOP3 and SMTP compatible email client?hijack this
Yahoo is Http, last time I used it it was pop and smtp as well but they stopped the smtp so you could only send e-mails from internet explorer. Yahoo has its own built in virus checker so providing you access the e-mail through your browser yahoo will pick it up.
Besides that norton will pick up a virus if you download it to your computer.
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