Hello all, I hope I'm posting in the right place. I use Outlook Express and have got Mcafee security suite 8 -roll on the end of that subscription- which includes McAfee privacy service. This is set to tell me when, among other things, my name is sent across the internet via email or chat.

I've noticed that if I put my name once in an email (as you do) the privacy service warns me during send/receive that my name is being sent twice. I wondered if this meant my email was being sent twice (and if so, who was the 2nd copy going to)?

To test this I tried sending myself an email and seeing if the whole thing actually goes twice (it doesn't, or at least, I only receive one copy of it). I tried again, telling it to block sending my name the first time and allow it the second (the email I received had my name blocked) and then just to be sure I sent another one, allowing the first time and blocking the second (it still came back to me with my name blocked). This didn't confirm or deny my suspicions, so I contacted McAfee customer support.

I now know I would've been better off either contacting Cletus the Slack-Jawed -Yokel or standing next to a good, solid, thick wall and bashing my head against it for 30 mins. Either option would've got me as far forward as the customer support cretin did.

I'm now using Hushmail instead, but I retain my right to dislike webmail, and the reasons for a yahoo account rather than hotmail or gmail persist:
1) Nagging doubts over security with passport, and AdSense issues (as discussed elsewhere on AO)
2) I'm lazy - if I can click one button to open OE, and click one more to send & receive I'll do that rather than the longwinded option
2) Free pop3 access. The fact that I sussed a little trick with yahoo also helps - in order to get the pop3 access for free you have to allow them to bombard your inbox every couple of days with random ads, or ones related only to topics you specify. If you click the "only topics I specify" box and then don't specify any topics you get the pop3 settings and none of the ads .

Is there some bizarre combo of OE, Yahoo & McAfee that causes McAfee to erroneously report an email is being sent twice? Am I being needlessly paranoid? Is this further proof (as if I needed any) that McA is just as crap as M$ or |\|0r70n?

I did try to cut this down, esp. as a first post, but I didn't want to waste anyone's time suggesting remedies I've already thought of.

Thanks