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Posted by Cat_in_awe on December 22, 2005, 11:52 am
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>> Researching a strange problem whereby a clients outlook express
>> settings are changing - the POP server address was changed from
>> pop.xxxxx.co.uk to 127.0.0.1. I corrected this about 4 weeks ago and
>> this morning the same has happened again. The machine has been
>> checked with all the usual spyware/virus checks.
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>> Its strange that the address is changed to the machines loop back
>> address ..
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> its a bug containd in certain AV software packages.. common with AVG
> and older verions of norton..
With Avast (in the past), it wasn't really a bug, but a procedure they used
to create a proxy and allow the AV package to scan the OE e-mail. The
recent versions no longer use this process, however.
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GPC
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