Outlook buffer overrun detected

I have been functioning without the error since the last post. Today I got
the error again. What I thought I had noticed before when this happened,
happened again this morning. I had a reminder set for something that was
overdue. ( I had not dismissed yesterday so it was still active)

What happens is as follows: Outlook opens, the reminder past and the
Send/receive try to come up about the same time, buffer over run detected
comes up.

I thought this was the sequence that happened on previous occassions. This
morning I know, that was the order.

I have gone into tools and unchecked the box you recommended. We will see
if this happens again.

"Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]" wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 03:19:01 -0800, sundragon wrote:

There is no way they will turn off the incoming mail scanning. We have had
to many incidents with mail viruses and people just don't seem to heed
warnings not to open what is obiously an infected message. Basically they
would tell me SOL

they have been doing the virus scan for incoming mail for 2 + years now and
I have had Outlook o3 since it came out and never had this problem until
about a month ago. Now every time I first boot up and open outlook I get the
problem. I do a repair and everything works until the next morning when I
boot up. The IT staff has not changed anti-virus vendors. One other thought
is that out of 100+ machines configured more or less the same, using the same
anti-virus scanner, email server, etc. this is the only one that has the
problem. Believe me I would hear from others if they were having this
problem too.


Well, about a month ago, Norton pushed out an update that caused problems
for a lot of people - see
http://service1.symantec.com/support...02071214223706.

As to the dangers of turning off inbound scanning, there really are none -
Norton has a "run-time" component that prevents a virus from running, so
even if you received one and tried to open it, Norton would block it. You
really don't need to scan mail if you have a run-time component.

--
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:17:06 -0800, sundragon wrote:

I have been functioning without the error since the last post. Today I got
the error again. What I thought I had noticed before when this happened,
happened again this morning. I had a reminder set for something that was
overdue. ( I had not dismissed yesterday so it was still active)

What happens is as follows: Outlook opens, the reminder past and the
Send/receive try to come up about the same time, buffer over run detected
comes up.

I thought this was the sequence that happened on previous occassions. This
morning I know, that was the order.

I have gone into tools and unchecked the box you recommended. We will see
if this happens again.

From what I've seen in these groups, you may need to uninstall Norton and
then reinstall it without the mail-scanning option in order to really turn
it off...

--
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights