I don't know about PCCillin, but Norton modifies e-mail clients in the
way you describe. This is so that Norton intercepts the e-mail (sending
and receiving) to scan it first. I disabled outgoing scanning since it
was slow and I am fairly certain of my system integrity.

The second question you had seems to be a hoax I have heard of going
around. Others may have more specific comments on that one.

Peter

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-----Original Message-----
I have been using Trend Micro's PCCillin for several years.  I like it
because it seems less intrusive than other virus scanners.  I received
notification from Trend that a new version had been released.  Since I'm
getting 2 or 3 viruses a day I thought I'd go ahead and update.  Did so.
After some problems with configuring it, it seems to be OK, though slow.

But, immediately after installing it I found that something had changed
my Eudora email configuration.  The pop3 server name had been changed to
"local host".  Additionally, the login name had been changed.  Changes
were made to all 3 mail servers I use.  All is well after correcting the
configuration.

Question is, did the Trend program do this?  I'll email Trend and ask
them, of course.  Or, did a virus slip by and do this trick?  It would
be interesting to hear any thoughts on this.

On another subject I received what appears to be a virus spoof from the
email address of a friend.  It advised deleting JBDGMGR.EXE as it was a
virus that she had accidentally sent to me and everyone else in her
address book.  As far as I can determine this is a valid Windows file,
and it does not scan as a virus.  Any thoughts?

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