In SettingsMy PrivacyAnti-Spam as a temporary workaround I turned off Email Processing.

Sent forwarded email (e.g.

I forwarded to someone containing text, pictures, hyperlinks) in my McAfee Sent folder disclosed that the email content I sent or forwarded is gone and is replaced by This is not the first occurrence of this.

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Emails Im forwarding should be safe and virus free if McAfee is performing effectively as it should have checked the email for viruses when it first arrived in my Inbox.

So I dont understand the strange characters replacing intended email content.

I like the idea of McAfee checking outgoing email for viruses.

Dont just send the email anyway with strange characters that make recipients think the email contains a virus.

As a result, emails can be sent forwarded not knowing there is nothing in the email received by the recipient.

Dont often look at or review sent emails to make sure they are okay and shouldnt have to.

Please fix this or let me know what Im doing wrong.

I have McAfee Anti-Spam turned on so spam and junk email received by me from others ends up in the Anti-Spam folder.

Does Anti-Spam have something to do with the strange characters showing up in my emails forwarded to others and if so how do I get it to stop checking outgoing email that results in recipients receiving a suspicious looking email Thank you.

Please disable or remove Anti Spam add on and check if it works fine.

Also, please let us know the Anti Spam, McAfee Anti Virus and Windows version on your computer.

After reading your reply, I have now turned off (unchecked) Scan Outgoing Email in Anti-Spam Outgoing Email Scan settings.

Will try this first for awhile to see what happens before turning off Anti-Spam altogether.

Seems to me turning off Anti-Spam defeats the purpose of the product and could lose the ability to have McAfee move spam or phishing emails to Anti-Spam folder in Outlook.

As you requested, I have: - Mcafee Total Protection version 16.0 R28 - Anti-Spam version 19.8.116 - Anti-Virus version: no such named component but the About settings do show VirusScan version 23.4.142 - Window 10 Pro version 20H2 Still think the program may need fixing so it doesnt send replacement emails with unusual characters and that the outgoing email scan program report such instances to the email sender without sending those unusual character emails.

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Will post again with an update after a trial period of having the outgoing email scan sub-component turned off.

Kindly uncheck the option Outgoing email scan option from Anti-Spam settings and check if issue persists.

You are suggesting something that I already said I was going to do and did when the original McAfee support recommendation to turn off Anti-Spam wasnt even in the ballpark of this problems resolution.

See my comment above about my having unchecked the outgoing email scan option.

Anyway, having turned it off on my own accord before hearing from you is resulting in emails being sent forwarded normally without the strange characters appearing in lieu of the original text and pictures.

Will consider this resolved after the outgoing email scan component is fixed and operating effectively.

Thanks.

McAfee has not provided me with direct notification of a fix for this program flaw affecting users.

Its been awhile since McAfees team has said anything helpful in this thread and Im hopeful they can do better for their customers.