Outlook May Not Work Properly with your Antivirus Software

The need to protect our systems from a range

of threats plays heavily in our minds given the proliferation of viruses. With new and potent viruses emerging every other day and malicious individuals looking to compromise our systems, the need for a state of the art antivirus application is an absolute must. Thus a large section of computer users have installed sophisticated antivirus applications that claim to save you from malware. Many of these applications also tend to check your emails before they land up in the Outlook Inbox. While the process is clearly designed to protect you, it can inadvertently conflict with your Outlook application. Let’s look at certain situations you can experience.

Antivirus application can Crash Outlook

Most current Antivirus applications use a variety of methods to check for viruses. Not only they check a suspected file against their virus database, they also attempt to verify the characteristic of a suspected element based on heuristics. Now this complicated process to check files also applies to your emails waiting to land in your Inbox whenever you activate the email protection option. One of the unfortunate side effects of email protection may involve the Outlook application thread getting stuck when it keeps on waiting for the emails to be processed by the antivirus application and in some cases the application simply crashes up. Dealing with this situation can be tricky as merely turning off email protection may not be the ideal way out. Ideally you should contact the Antivirus publisher with the issue and ask for a workaround.

Outlook May stop sending emails after you install a specific Antivirus

In some cases, certain Antivirus applications can change the way Outlook sends emails. The issue has been specifically noticed with the Norton Antivirus and it occurs due to the fact that Norton alters the way in which the emails are sent out. To correct the situation you need to renter the server details in your Pop3/Smtp settings in Outlook. Also you can uncheck the email protection option and try whether emails go out as needed.

Anti spam Plug-ins can make the Outlook Application freeze up

In case you have installed a security application that installs an anti spam plug-in Outlook then you may suddenly find the Outlook application freezing up. Ideally you should avoid using spam filtering tools in Outlook and instead use the inbuilt Junk filter to fight spam.

Virus infections can lead to PST errors

In case your system has been affected by a virus, it may compromise your data including Outlook PST files. Now if you suspect your PST files have been compromised then you need to get hold of an outlook repair application like DataNumen Outlook Repair to extract the lost emails and other content. Owing to its stellar algorithm the application is capable of digging out data from extensively damaged files while maintaining complete data integrity. Moreover it has the capacity to handle humongous files and can even extract the contents from a virtual machine drive without exerting itself.

Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/