OL E-mails All Arriving with File Attachments

[A Baffled User]

Yikes! Okay, I've got it.

Your AV program updates itself, probably silently, every day. That means
it can start behaving differently at any time and you'll never know it
until it causes problems. That's why the McAfee update of a couple of
weeks ago killed tens of thousands of PCs all over the world - they
updated their AV program and messed up with the detection strings, causing
the program to quarantine SVCHOST.EXE, an essential WIndows program,
bringing all those machines down.

 

[A Baffled User]

Thanks, Tom. Whatever the case may be, after I exited OL safe mode and
restarted the program normally a few days ago, the extra file attachments
stopped coming. I had not made any adjustments to the settings of my AV
program. I'm figuring I'll just leave well enough alone for now, knowing
that I can come back to this newsgroup for instruction if the problem
recurs.

Joan

 

[A Baffled User]

Many thanks for these precise instructions. Since I exited OL safe mode and
restarted the program normally a few days ago, there have been no more extra
file attachments. I had not made any adjustments to the settings of my AV
program. I'm just going to leave well enough alone for now, knowing that I
can come back to your helpful message if the problem recurs.

Joan