My guess it is just another way for AOL to earn advertising revenue. It's annoying, so I will be sure not to use Map-Quest! Barbara > > I'm having the same problem and I use AVG. I just ignore it and open the > > attachment since I know it to be a valid attachment. > > Is there any way to stop these if we have AVG?? > > In a message dated 12/31/2009 12:00:43 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > aolers-rootsweb-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > Just recently whenever I try to download a file I get a message in the > upper left hand corner of the screen as follows: > > QUOTE Unable to scan attachments. The attached file(s) has not been > scanned because it may be password protected or corrupted. Disclaimer: > McAfree > Virus Scan may not be able to detect all known viruses or variants. > UNQUOTE