THE said:
An email scanner is not needed and are provided by internet services already.
Make it a great day.
Not my point. Jon's comment could be construed to mean e-mail scanning
was included (in the free version of Antivir). Not according to Avira
who should know their own product.
Personally, I don't use the e-mail scanner in any anti-virus product
that I've used. Superfluous. Not because the e-mail provider might
scan your e-mails but because your same scanner will catch the pest when
you attempt to save the attachment.
I use Avast. It, too, has an e-mail scanner. I don't use it. However,
I do use their Outlook plug-in. Why? Not to detect pests arriving via
e-mail but to make sure nothing on my host is abusing Outlook to become
a mailer trojan. The plug-in uses heuristics (rules) to let me set
maximums for how many e-mails can be sent at a time, how many
recipients, and so on. It is less likely but not impossible that it
will not affect additional delays since it is inside the e-mail client
(it will cause delay internally but not with the mail server). However,
if it ever interferes with e-mailing then, poof, it's gone, especially
since mailer trojan rarely bother to utilize e-mail clients anymore.
