To date, I have been using Sophos to protect my PC at home.
The company I work for issued regular Sophos update disks to employees. I
connect to the company's intranet via a VPN connection through my normal
ISP.

Now, sadly, I no longer receive these disks so I have to find a new
low-cost but highly effective anti-virus program

I thought I'd give AVG from grisoft a go.

I believe I have it all set up and working. I have it configured to check
AND verify all incoming messages.
I am a little concerned that I am not getting the certification message
tagged to the bottom of incoming messages (I use Outlook Express 6). How
can I be certain that it is actually scanning my incoming messages? I
receive a lot of spam with attachments and am reluctant to test AVG by
risking my system and opening an infected file.


regards

Brendan

In article <cfgb68$dpg$1$(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> To date, I have been using Sophos to protect my PC at home.
> The company I work for issued regular Sophos update disks to employees. I
> connect to the company's intranet via a VPN connection through my normal
> ISP.
>
> Now, sadly, I no longer receive these disks so I have to find a new
> low-cost but highly effective anti-virus program
>
> I thought I'd give AVG from grisoft a go.
>
> I believe I have it all set up and working. I have it configured to check
> AND verify all incoming messages.
> I am a little concerned that I am not getting the certification message
> tagged to the bottom of incoming messages (I use Outlook Express 6). How
> can I be certain that it is actually scanning my incoming messages? I
> receive a lot of spam with attachments and am reluctant to test AVG by
> risking my system and opening an infected file.
>
>
> regards
>
> Brendan
>
>
>
SEE.....
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/.../lng/us/tpl/v5

By the way according to the FAQ at the site , AVG Email plugin doesnt fully
support email scanning in OE6. They suggest to enable the plugin but if you
have any problems to disable it.
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/.../lng/us/tpl/v5
me

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:59:36 +0100, "Brendan DJ Murphy"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>To date, I have been using Sophos to protect my PC at home.
>The company I work for issued regular Sophos update disks to employees. I
>connect to the company's intranet via a VPN connection through my normal
>ISP.
>
>Now, sadly, I no longer receive these disks so I have to find a new
>low-cost but highly effective anti-virus program
>
>I thought I'd give AVG from grisoft a go.
>
>I believe I have it all set up and working. I have it configured to check
>AND verify all incoming messages.
>I am a little concerned that I am not getting the certification message
>tagged to the bottom of incoming messages (I use Outlook Express 6). How
>can I be certain that it is actually scanning my incoming messages? I
>receive a lot of spam with attachments and am reluctant to test AVG by
>risking my system and opening an infected file.
>
>
>regards
>
>Brendan

Hi Brendan,
You will find some people have views on the value, or lack of, in
having a message claiming that an e-mail is virus free. The way,
however, to turn this on and off is to double click the AVG icon in
the right corner of your screen, choose 'E-Mail Scanner' and then tick
the boxes 'Check incoming messages', 'Certify incoming messages' etc.

Reg

"Brendan DJ Murphy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:cfgb68$dpg$1$(E-Mail Removed)...
> To date, I have been using Sophos to protect my PC at home.
> The company I work for issued regular Sophos update disks to employees. I
> connect to the company's intranet via a VPN connection through my normal
> ISP.
>
> Now, sadly, I no longer receive these disks so I have to find a new
> low-cost but highly effective anti-virus program
>
> I thought I'd give AVG from grisoft a go.
>
> I believe I have it all set up and working. I have it configured to check
> AND verify all incoming messages.
> I am a little concerned that I am not getting the certification message
> tagged to the bottom of incoming messages (I use Outlook Express 6). How
> can I be certain that it is actually scanning my incoming messages? I
> receive a lot of spam with attachments and am reluctant to test AVG by
> risking my system and opening an infected file.

Download the 30 day trial of Kaspersky..if you are financially strapped use
that month to pay for it ( not sure but i think it would work out than less
than £6 a week if you started saving now? Not being sarky just I think KAV
personal is about £25 for a year?
Its a way better scanner than AVG IMO

http://www.kaspersky.com/