Since changing from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 my avg anti-virus message
now appears as an attachement. How do I get it to go back to showing in the
body of the message?
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mikeatic

mikeatic wrote:

> Since changing from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 my avg anti-virus message
> now appears as an attachement. How do I get it to go back to showing in the
> body of the message?

Why are you having AVG append its superfluous "It's clean - Trust me"
text onto your e-mails.

If there is a pest in received e-mail, you rely on an alert from your
anti-virus program to tell you about it. Or later when you attempt to
save the attachment in the e-mail then you get an alert. You don't need
text appended to an e-mail to tell you there is a pest or not. You rely
on the alerts for that.

For sent e-mails, you really think any recipient is going to blithely
trust some text appended onto that e-mail that promises it is clean?

Scanning your e-mails for malware is superfluous. Their real-time
protection (on-access scanner) will check the newly created file
whenever you attempt to save an attachment. The interrogation of the
e-mail takes time and can cause timeouts between the client and server.
There is no additional protection afforded by scanning e-mails.

Last time I trialed AVG, you could not just disable their e-mail
scanner. You had to uninstall AVG and do a custom install where you
could elect to NOT include their e-mail scanner.

The version of AVG I have allows you to turn off the email scanner. Are you
saying that scanning incoming emails is not necessary?
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mikeatic


"VanguardLH" wrote:

> mikeatic wrote:
>
> > Since changing from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 my avg anti-virus message
> > now appears as an attachement. How do I get it to go back to showing in the
> > body of the message?
>
> Why are you having AVG append its superfluous "It's clean - Trust me"
> text onto your e-mails.
>
> If there is a pest in received e-mail, you rely on an alert from your
> anti-virus program to tell you about it. Or later when you attempt to
> save the attachment in the e-mail then you get an alert. You don't need
> text appended to an e-mail to tell you there is a pest or not. You rely
> on the alerts for that.
>
> For sent e-mails, you really think any recipient is going to blithely
> trust some text appended onto that e-mail that promises it is clean?
>
> Scanning your e-mails for malware is superfluous. Their real-time
> protection (on-access scanner) will check the newly created file
> whenever you attempt to save an attachment. The interrogation of the
> e-mail takes time and can cause timeouts between the client and server.
> There is no additional protection afforded by scanning e-mails.
>
> Last time I trialed AVG, you could not just disable their e-mail
> scanner. You had to uninstall AVG and do a custom install where you
> could elect to NOT include their e-mail scanner.
>

mikeatic wrote:

> The version of AVG I have allows you to turn off the email scanner. Are you
> saying that scanning incoming emails is not necessary?

Yep, not necessary. Not added protection is afforded by email scanning.
The only effect is WHEN you get alerted. By scanning the e-mail
traffic, you get an alert about a pest as the e-mail gets delivered to
your e-mail client. If you later attempt to save the attachment, the
on-access scanner catches the pest, anyway. Timeouts are a big problem
when injecting an interrogator that delays e-mail traffic. It takes
time to inspect the e-mail and that can cause a timeout between your
e-mail client and mail server (for both when receiving and sending
e-mails).

Users will say, "Been working fine for months or years and then ALL OF A
SUDDEN <insertproblem>". Something changed enough the generate enough
of additional delay to cause the timeouts. Could've been a Windows
update, change in software firewalls, anti-virus program update, or
anything that is involved in interrogation the e-mail traffic or affect
network access.

You do have the anti-spam filter enabled for your account up on the mail
server, right? And your e-mail provider does their own virus scanning
on your e-mails, right?

Yes, it allows you to turn it off, but it normally doesn't work. You'll need
to reinstall AVG in custom mode, and don't install the scanner.

Using the email scanner in an A/V program can cause problems down the road:
blank emails, emails disappearing from your in box...and a slew of others.

"mikeatic" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E1B5E58C-44E5-4109-A239-(E-Mail Removed)...
: The version of AVG I have allows you to turn off the email scanner. Are
you
: saying that scanning incoming emails is not necessary?
: --
: mikeatic
:
:
: "VanguardLH" wrote:
:
: > mikeatic wrote:
: >
: > > Since changing from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 my avg anti-virus
message
: > > now appears as an attachement. How do I get it to go back to showing
in the
: > > body of the message?
: >
: > Why are you having AVG append its superfluous "It's clean - Trust me"
: > text onto your e-mails.
: >
: > If there is a pest in received e-mail, you rely on an alert from your
: > anti-virus program to tell you about it. Or later when you attempt to
: > save the attachment in the e-mail then you get an alert. You don't need
: > text appended to an e-mail to tell you there is a pest or not. You rely
: > on the alerts for that.
: >
: > For sent e-mails, you really think any recipient is going to blithely
: > trust some text appended onto that e-mail that promises it is clean?
: >
: > Scanning your e-mails for malware is superfluous. Their real-time
: > protection (on-access scanner) will check the newly created file
: > whenever you attempt to save an attachment. The interrogation of the
: > e-mail takes time and can cause timeouts between the client and server.
: > There is no additional protection afforded by scanning e-mails.
: >
: > Last time I trialed AVG, you could not just disable their e-mail
: > scanner. You had to uninstall AVG and do a custom install where you
: > could elect to NOT include their e-mail scanner.
: >

mikeatic

See the following

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

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"mikeatic" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:E1B5E58C-44E5-4109-A239-(E-Mail Removed)...
> The version of AVG I have allows you to turn off the email scanner. Are you
> saying that scanning incoming emails is not necessary?
> --
> mikeatic
>
>
> "VanguardLH" wrote:
>
>> mikeatic wrote:
>>
>> > Since changing from Outlook Express to Outlook 2002 my avg anti-virus message
>> > now appears as an attachement. How do I get it to go back to showing in the
>> > body of the message?
>>
>> Why are you having AVG append its superfluous "It's clean - Trust me"
>> text onto your e-mails.
>>
>> If there is a pest in received e-mail, you rely on an alert from your
>> anti-virus program to tell you about it. Or later when you attempt to
>> save the attachment in the e-mail then you get an alert. You don't need
>> text appended to an e-mail to tell you there is a pest or not. You rely
>> on the alerts for that.
>>
>> For sent e-mails, you really think any recipient is going to blithely
>> trust some text appended onto that e-mail that promises it is clean?
>>
>> Scanning your e-mails for malware is superfluous. Their real-time
>> protection (on-access scanner) will check the newly created file
>> whenever you attempt to save an attachment. The interrogation of the
>> e-mail takes time and can cause timeouts between the client and server.
>> There is no additional protection afforded by scanning e-mails.
>>
>> Last time I trialed AVG, you could not just disable their e-mail
>> scanner. You had to uninstall AVG and do a custom install where you
>> could elect to NOT include their e-mail scanner.
>>

Also read:

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

The article focuses on Outlook Express but other points are valid.

VanguardLH wrote:

> Also read:
>
> http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
>
> The article focuses on Outlook Express but other points are valid.

Damn, Peter already beat me to it (see his reply).