AVG message as an attachement

[mikeatic]

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?

 

[VanguardLH]

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]

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

 

[VanguardLH]

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?

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

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.

: 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.
: >

 

[Peter Foldes]

mikeatic

See the following

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

 

[VanguardLH]

Also read:

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

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

 

[VanguardLH]

Also read:

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

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

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