AVG Free Edition

[George B]

I posted this on the AVG Forum on their website

but here it is for more informed responses:

Thanks for the gift, but AVG free edition is one horse I'm going to look
in the mouth.

I found after installing it, as soon as I opened any email client (OE6 or
Pimmy) my dial-up connection would start in the background without a sign.
The only hint that something was happening was the sound of my modem and a
window above the Systray that ays "AVG E-mail Scanner" and an IP number.

I understand that AVG serves as a go-between but it needs to learn when to
prompt. To disable this was hidden, to say the least.

1st - find AVG control center - which no longer shows in the System tray
at startup.
- once you locate it, open it and select Email Scanner
- then click "properties
- click properties in the next window as well
- select the "servers" tab (enough to scare any novice away)
- under proxy select "Pop3 - host:automatic"
- select "modify"
- chose USER/COMPUTER (who knows why?????????)
- click "OK"
- click "OK"
- click "OK"
12th - close AVG control center

The other thing: how on earth dowes one make the "AVG E-mail Scanner"
window disappear from above the System tray??

And the next thing is I can't send massages with attachments. I get a nice
message from AVG for Email <avgmail@localhost> saying the message could not
be delivered, "connection timed out." Yeah right! So I disable "check
outgoing mail". Then what's the point??
->:-((

apologies for all the grumbles. But I'm feeling grumbly.

George

 

[Octavian]

And the next thing is I can't send massages with attachments. I get a nice
message from AVG for Email <avgmail@localhost> saying the message could not
be delivered, "connection timed out." Yeah right! So I disable "check
outgoing mail". Then what's the point??

I always have the outgoing check disabled.

For that matter, I have the incoming disabled too. If an email contains an
attachment with a virus, AVG will catch it when I save it.

It seems that these measures prevent all the problems that people are
finding with the new AVG.

 

[Mark Warner]

I always have the outgoing check disabled.

For that matter, I have the incoming disabled too. If an email
contains an attachment with a virus, AVG will catch it when I save it.

It seems that these measures prevent all the problems that people are
finding with the new AVG.

Agreed. I used the Custom Install and chose not to install the email
scanner. Scanning email is unnecessary fluff, and causes far more
headaches than benefits. The resident scanner will prevent infection if
one was to inadvertently execute a malicious file.

And why would anybody want to scan *outgoing* mail? Surely one would
know better than to purposely send a malicious file, and any reasonably
good software firewall would alert you to a surreptitious connection
attempt.

 

[EA]

Agreed. I used the Custom Install and chose not to install the
email scanner. Scanning email is unnecessary fluff, and causes far
more headaches than benefits. The resident scanner will prevent
infection if one was to inadvertently execute a malicious file.

And why would anybody want to scan *outgoing* mail? Surely one
would know better than to purposely send a malicious file, and any
reasonably good software firewall would alert you to a
surreptitious connection attempt.

I agree, as we already said this in another thread. But there is
another reason to avoid the email scanner. If the AVG email scanner
is acting like a local email server (to accept outgoing email from
the email program) and there is a firewall rule to allow it to send
email to the provider's server, then it is possible that in the
future a malicious program can use this to bypass the firewall. Such
a program can send email to AVG instead of trying to send it through
the firewall. One would need to create rules that only allow the
legitimate email program to connect to AVG's local server and block
all other programs from doing so. I never installed AVG's email
scanner and I don't know if the configuration already includes such
rules but if it does not, it's a hole that people should close....

E.