Outlook Express is downloading my attachments?

[Zylstra]

I have received a spyware attachment, it has been sent to my junk mail folder automatically.
I clicked on the email to see what it was, and my AV scanner showed that my computer had been infected with a PUP.
why is Outlook Express downloading the attachment?
The junk mail folder does not synchronize with everything else.

[soybean]

Just to be sure, do you really mean Outlook Express or do you mean Outlook?  Outlook Express does not, in it's standard folder configuration, have a "junk mail" folder.  Its standard folders are Inbox, Outbox, Send Items, Deleted Items, and Drafts.  

[Zylstra]

Just to be sure, do you really mean Outlook Express or do you mean Outlook?  Outlook Express does not, in it's standard folder configuration, have a "junk mail" folder.  Its standard folders are Inbox, Outbox, Send Items, Deleted Items, and Drafts.  

Its Outlook Express....

[soybean]

Why wouldn't OE download the attachment?  I think the question you should be asking is, why didn't your AV program catch it before your computer got infected?

[Zylstra]

Why wouldn't OE download the attachment?  I think the question you should be asking is, why didn't your AV program catch it before your computer got infected?

No no no....
It caught the spyware before it could do anything.
It should download it, I don't have it set to.

[dl65]

 zylstra555.......Your post is a bit confusing ........ you say

clicked on the email to see what it was, and my AV scanner showed that my computer had been infected with a PUP.

  and then you say .....

No no no.... It caught the spyware before it could do anything.

 So the question is ....... was it infected or not ?

and if that wasnt confusing enough , you say ..........

I have received a spyware attachment, it has been sent to my junk mail folder automatically.

 ..... Outlook Express does not have a "Junk" folder .........   only ...... INBOX, OUTBOX, SENT ITEMS , DELETED ITEMS and last but not least DRAFTS ....... ( I believe soybean has already pointed this out to you .    Are you sure you havent routed your hotmail through Outlook Express , as it does have a "Junk" mail folder .

dl65  

[soybean]

Why wouldn't OE download the attachment?  I think the question you should be asking is, why didn't your AV program catch it before your computer got infected?

No no no....
It caught the spyware before it could do anything.
It should download it, I don't have it set to.

Did you leave the word not out of that last sentence?  

dl65 has said exactly why your comments are confusing.  Anyway, I'll try to state what I think you intended to say.  In OE, Tools, Options, Security, you have a check in the box for "Do not allow attachments ... that could potentially be a virus."  Is that right?  

And, OE still allowed an attachment to come through.  Is that right?  I don't know whether that setting in OE Security is supposed to stop ALL attachments or whether it just applies some screening criteria to all attachments, meaning ones that pass the test would be allowed to come through.  

Regardless of exactly what that setting is supposed to do and what AV software your're using, there's a lesson to be learned here.  Never open attachments whose source and purpose you do not know.

[Zylstra]

Why wouldn't OE download the attachment?  I think the question you should be asking is, why didn't your AV program catch it before your computer got infected?

No no no....
It caught the spyware before it could do anything.
It should download it, I don't have it set to.

Did you leave the word not out of that last sentence?  

dl65 has said exactly why your comments are confusing.  Anyway, I'll try to state what I think you intended to say.  In OE, Tools, Options, Security, you have a check in the box for "Do not allow attachments ... that could potentially be a virus."  Is that right?  

And, OE still allowed an attachment to come through.  Is that right?  I don't know whether that setting in OE Security is supposed to stop ALL attachments or whether it just applies some screening criteria to all attachments, meaning ones that pass the test would be allowed to come through.  

Regardless of exactly what that setting is supposed to do and what AV software your're using, there's a lesson to be learned here.  Never open attachments whose source and purpose you do not know.

Ok. Ok...
I have a "Bulk Mail" folder. I have MSN Premium, and I am using Outlook Express to check my email.
The spyware attachment was detected the minute OE downloaded it. I did not download it.
I am wondering why OE somehow downloaded it.
My AV scanner scanned the file on entering the memory (it scans all files) and stopped it, and allowed me to remove it.
It that more clear now?

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