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Originally posted by BlackStar
Coming to Virusscanners I have so far not had anything infected coming in. I use McAfee v8.0.41 and I haven't found in the documentation that it specifically scans Messenger but I think it really is scanning all incoming files. The new McAfee v9.0.10 says that it scans MSN Messenger and other messengers too. I guess I have to wait and see or ask somebody to send me an infected file - NOT.
we were not talking about the inbuild features of some virusscanners to scan incoming files in IM software (which can conflict with other things), but about the option in Messenger itself to scan a file. This option is forgotten/overlooked by many people, but it is infact a very good/better way to scan incomming files (for several reasons)...
In Messenger:
Tools > Options > Messages > File Transfer > Scan files for viruses using:....
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