Why do I need email scanning in Thunderbird

I have looked and looked and I can not see what benefit I get from having my email scanned in Thunderbird. The program does not allow scripting or flash so the only risk I can see is from attachments. Shouldn't the resident scanner stop that as soon as I try and open the attachment when the file is placed in the temp folder to be opened.

Please tell me I am not seeing to forest for the trees.

 

yes, realtime protection will block anything it knows/thinks malicious trying to activate/execute

 

If you're installing for the first time, it will go through and clean up old messages that have malicious attachments which can't happen with the real-time scanner because all that stuff is compacted in to a single mailbox file.

 

benefit What benefit do you expect by disabled e-mail scan ?

there is no heavy power cost to let e-mail integration so what is the problem ?

keep default setting and you will be well protect

 

go in settings, advanced setup, web and mail*.....

- email client protection, press F1 and read the help files

- email client integration, press F1 and read the help files

- email client, press F1 and read the help files

you dont need absolutely to integrate email client, it is not in default setting ( Eset cant know which email client you have !!) but it can increase security

I am surprised you said toolbar is not compatible. I thought Eset and Mozilla Thunderbird talk together to set integration...

 

Hello,

Unfortunately NOD32 is not compatible with Thunderbird 5.

But NOD32 checks the mails downloaded with Thunderbird (POP3). The incompatibility affects only the toolbar NOD32