Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:37:18 -0500 From: spampling Subject: Re: Android email and Pluto Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:29:58 +0100 Message-ID: <52c002fdf4spam.pling@btinternet.com> References: <52bf0c4b94dave@davenoise.co.uk> <52bf123436see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <551725bf52.martin@blueyonder.co.uk> <52bf7f71c5bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <920082bf52.chris@o2.co.uk> <52bf8cd395bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <2bc6bcbf52.chris@o2.co.uk> <52bfc405b8riscos@mdharding.org.uk> User-Agent: Pluto/2.05-a1 (RISC-OS/4.02) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Organization: Que? Orga-what Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-XktkuWNKaAC47VAN5O+2kNsv+2pamL/z2XyY8iTVeWhLM9i9oe8vGWNOPxe9u6eNvHcOc2+GO1Dw1Xw!EfIGxD5MStcj0dTq6DqeyZZ7DrfpegkAmibCDTvm7gCvlP3cWcdqhLnej3lV6QvFLFIi X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2102 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6114 In article <52bfc405b8riscos@mdharding.org.uk>, M Harding wrote: > Can someone please confirm or > deny my suspicion that although I have AVG/free virus screening in > place on this WindowsXP computer, that's likely to let through > viruses and other nasties in emails arriving via Pluto (and that this > would also apply to MPro)? Advice please. The attachments are just rubbish data as far as the RISC OS side is concerned, however if you transferred the rubbish data to the windows side and then ran it from there, that's when the problems occur. All the wifes mail comes into the RPC that does the mail fetch. She then looks at any attachment with a view on whether to transfer elsewhere. Anything she is unsure of is where she consults the nearest IT savvie person (when I get home) -- Steve Pampling