Emails show paperclip icon in outlook express?

[doghandler]

Can anyone suggest a solution to my problem.

All my emails within Outlook Express are shown to have an attachment (Little paperclip icon) despite most of them having no actual attachment?

I have also been told that all my outgoing emails are showing up on the recipents computers to have attachment icons on them despite no attachment?

I am using 'spamfighter' spam filtering and this problem started roughly around the last update, but 'spamfighter' state it is definitely not their software.

The easy answer with regards to this would be to uninstal it and see, but i dont want to do that and lose all my 'blacklists' etc if it something else.

Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

[doghandler]

I have found the answer to this from another source, but will list it here for the information of anyone else who has the same problem.

It seems that the problem was not, as i thought, in my spam filter, but in fact in my virus protector, AVG Free edition - the fault lies in their latest update (7), it seems that it uses the paperclip icon to show that it has checked the file.

There is a work around for this, i will paste the reply i got here for your information;

Open AVG and click on the "Control Center" button on the left side, then Double left click on E-MAIL SCANNER. The Plugins tab should be ontop...click CONFIGURE button. Remove the check mark next to "CERTIFY MAIL" for both Incoming mail and Outgoing mail. Leave the check mark next to "CHECK incoming mail and CHECK outgoing mail. Then OK your way out. By following these steps you won't get the paperclip icons except when there is an attachment and there will not be a virus scan time stamp at the end of your messages when you send, however, your emails are STILL being scanned. For some dumb reason they used that paperclip icon for a visual certification. There have been complaints so I'm sure eventually they'll change it. In the meantime this procedure works....