AVG Email Scan/Pegasus Question

[George W.]

Using AVG Free 7.0.3 and PegasusMail 4.21.

The AVG email scan is active. Sometimes (not always) when sending mail
a small AVG email scan window saying "Connecting To" pops up.
Sometimes it goes away quickly but it can hang for a long time. This
happens seconds after the mail has been sent out and even after
closing Pegasus. I've disabled the outgoing mail setting in the email
scan configuration but it still happens. This is a new one on me and
started after a recent (and rather large) update. Can anyone explain
it? Thanks.

 

[Martin]

Using AVG Free 7.0.3 and PegasusMail 4.21.

The AVG email scan is active. Sometimes (not always) when sending mail
a small AVG email scan window saying "Connecting To" pops up.
Sometimes it goes away quickly but it can hang for a long time. This
happens seconds after the mail has been sent out and even after
closing Pegasus. I've disabled the outgoing mail setting in the email
scan configuration but it still happens. This is a new one on me and
started after a recent (and rather large) update. Can anyone explain
it? Thanks.

It's the new AVG Email Scanner. Basically it sits between your e-mail
program and the server and intercepts all e-mails, checking them first and
then passing them to your mail client or the mail server...

Also has been a cause for many problems - with me it would take heaps longer
to download large e-mails with pics in them using AVG than what it does
using Avast (or other AV software)...

You can disable or uninstall it, if you don't want e-mail scanning..
Someone here can help you with that if you need it. Personally I'd just
uninstall AVG and install Avast or something else, but hey that's my
thoughts...

 

[George W.]

It's the new AVG Email Scanner. Basically it sits between your e-mail
program and the server and intercepts all e-mails, checking them first and
then passing them to your mail client or the mail server...

Also has been a cause for many problems - with me it would take heaps longer
to download large e-mails with pics in them using AVG than what it does
using Avast (or other AV software)...

You can disable or uninstall it, if you don't want e-mail scanning..
Someone here can help you with that if you need it. Personally I'd just
uninstall AVG and install Avast or something else, but hey that's my
thoughts...

Thanks. I removed the email component. It just seemed a bit flaky.
Also downloaded Avast for a try, though I've been using AVG for a long
time.

G.

 

[Martin]

Thanks. I removed the email component. It just seemed a bit flaky.
Also downloaded Avast for a try, though I've been using AVG for a long
time.

G.

I understand - I was an AVG user for many years, even converting others to
AVG many times. I was a very big AVG fan indeed, and changing from AVG did
not come easy. The changes in v7 were 'annoying' in some ways, and the
problems I had with e-mail scanner was even worse. I don't know how many
times AVG6 had detected a virus coming in by spam mail so I really wanted
something that worked detecting incoming mail..

The clinch was when I tried Avast on my daughters PC - AVG had found a virus
a few days in a row but did nothing about it, it didn't even alert you other
than the little note in the final statistics that told you 1 virus found....
So I scanned with Avast which also found the virus and then moved it to the
chest (Avast equilalent of Virus Vault), far better than what AVG had done.
But then, Avast found another TWO virus's, one of which had a creation date
of some 3 months ago! That was the final straw for me - time to dump AVG.

For those that are very use to AVG, Avast will not be an easy transition but
I found it was worthwhile as I had lost faith in AVG plus was sick and tired
of the stuff ups since v7 came out. I suggest you either try Avast or maybe
an online scanner every so often just to be sure if you stick with AVG, in
the end it's your choice and you may find AVG is fine!

My daughter had a habbit of letting files through that she should've
rejected, and stopping AVG in mid scan as it was too harsh on resources, so
that was a big concern. Now she just lets Avast do its job and all seems
fine. She also says Avast doesn't slow things down on her ancient
Pentium-200MHz with 98SE as much as AVG7 did....

Anyway - have fun!! Hope this information is of help..

 

[MB_]

Martin:

I'm an AVG user too and I'm reasonably satisfied with it. However, I wanted
another AV program just for a "second opinion" scan. I d/l Avist. I must be
doing something wrong because when I boot the Avist icon seems to be
"turning" forever. It also stays grey and doesn't turn blue.

I must have some setting screwed up. I was able to do a "thorough" scan, but
after that I got rid of it.

Any ideas about what my error might be?

Mel