Overzealous Bitdefender vs Eudora

[mOrphine]

I'm running Bitdefender v7.2 with email scanning turned on. I use Eudora for my emails. Most of the time, Bitdefender would detect some virus in email attachments and promptly delete the offensive attachments.

However, there are occasions when Bitdefender detects an infected email which has something offensive embedded into the email itself. Bitdefender promptly quarantines my entire IN box (in.mbx) and I no longer have access to the emails stored in my IN box.

I can't get Bitdefender to ignore the in.mbx file because it only allows for entire paths to be ignored in its scanning, which defeats the purpose of email scanning I guess, since my attachment folder is within the path where in.mbx is.

Has anyone come across this problem and have a workaround?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Tools > Options > Attachments and the unlabeled button below "attachment folder"

Set the attachment folder elsewhere, then turn off scanning for \Eudora

Old links in mail will be broken, but you'll know where they've moved to.

Also set Windows Explorer folder options for the attachments folder to not show tooltips since that reads the file.

Finally, you might want to go to Tools > Options > Viewing Mail and un-check "Use Microsoft's Viewer" which is IE, which is not safe for your preview window. Some email won't display properly, but you can always "Send to browser" when you need to.

 

[mOrphine]

thanks, shall try that right now, didnt know the attachment folder could be moved.