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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 850264" data-attributes="member: 78686"><p>Windows Defender does have email scanning option though. Might be useful if someone uses email apps like Outlook, Thunderbird in which case their mailbox files will be parsed to scan its content but since smartsceen is not integrated into WD and network inspection protection is very limited, any malicious links in mails won't be blocked or notified to user and this is why I think it's disabled by default plus if any known malicious attachment from emails is saved on HDD then WD would detect it anyway so there's not much to gain by email scanning and it makes sense for them to keep it disabled by default. Besides, WD already often slows down my Thunderbird a lot when a new email is opened and deleted so turning the feature on might make it even worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 850264, member: 78686"] Windows Defender does have email scanning option though. Might be useful if someone uses email apps like Outlook, Thunderbird in which case their mailbox files will be parsed to scan its content but since smartsceen is not integrated into WD and network inspection protection is very limited, any malicious links in mails won't be blocked or notified to user and this is why I think it's disabled by default plus if any known malicious attachment from emails is saved on HDD then WD would detect it anyway so there's not much to gain by email scanning and it makes sense for them to keep it disabled by default. Besides, WD already often slows down my Thunderbird a lot when a new email is opened and deleted so turning the feature on might make it even worse. [/QUOTE]
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