kimbowa said:
That seems to have fixed it... it did coincide with an AVG upgrade!
Cheers!
A lot of AVG users have complained about it screwing up their e-mails.
However, I suspect that is because the install of AVG defaults to
sticking in this worthless text. If it were infected, you would get an
alert from AVG that the e-mail was infected. You don't need superfluous
text inside the e-mail telling you that. If it weren't infected, you
don't need text telling you the e-mail was clean. That AVG didn't popup
an alert already told you that. Sticking in some text that the outbound
e-mail was clean means absolutely nothing to the recipient of your sent
e-mails. Yeah, like anyone is going to believe some text in the body of
an e-mail saying it is clean.
Don't have any anti-virus software modifying your inbound or outbound
e-mails with superfluous text that it was clean or infected. Rely on
the anti-virus program itself to tell you that. That junk added to your
inbound and outbound e-mails can screw up formatting which results in
the problems that you noted. It will also corrupt encrypted e-mail. If
someone sent you an encrypted e-mail, its hash was based on the content
as the sender composed it. Anything that adds to the body of that
e-mail, like freebie e-mail provider that add a spam tagline to any
outbound e-mails sent through them or anti-virus software, will result
in a different hash than the one computed when the message was sent.
The result is that you see a warning that the encrypted e-mail has been
corrupted.
You gain absolutely nothing for protection by adding 'clean' or
'infected' text to the body of inbound or outbound e-mails. The AV
vendors have realized that they're running out of gimmicks to add to
their products so they're adding garbage to them.
