ntoskrnl.exe "Changed"

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Kate schrieb am Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:47:30 -0000:
Although I have always had e-mail scanning turned off in AVG Free, on
Thursday night I disabled it in Manage/Services & Applications and,
lo! no more tiresome message re `no connection available`.
Coincidence maybe?
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What did I tell you about the quick route? ;-)
And remember, nntp is not email. Apart from that, you cannot even be sure
that the anti-virus program really doesn't touch your email or any other
whereabouts of the email program if you switch "email scanning" off. It's
a matter of definition and how the scanning works.

Kai
 
Kate said:
Although I have always had e-mail scanning turned off in AVG Free, on
Thursday night I disabled it in Manage/Services & Applications and,
lo! no more tiresome message re `no connection available`.
Coincidence maybe?
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I suppose, Kate, I could disable F-StopW to see if it is guilty of causing
that behavior on my machine. I pay Iceland once each year for F-Prot.
Overzealous protective programs are the most likely culprits in the IE7
newsgroup reports of dysfunction. Coincidence unlikely. Congratulations!
 
Bruce Hagen said:
That very well could be the answer because with AVG, just unchecking
e-mail scanning is not enough.

Reinstall AVG and choose Custom Mode. Uncheck E-mail Scanning when
you see that option. For some reason, just unchecking it in the
security center causes a conflict with the Windows Security Center.

BTW. Have you upgraded to version 7.5? 7.1 will no longer support
updated for new Trojans. I have 7.5 and cannot see Manage/Services &
Applications. Where was that?
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I have version 7.5.430. In Manage/Services & Applications/Services,
it is the first AVG item, but if you unchecked E-mail Scanning when
you installed the AVG upgrade, I guess it won`t be there. As I
remember it, my problem with the "no connection available" notice
began around 16 November. I have just looked in Programs/Grisoft/AVG
Free folder, right-clicked an .exe file to access Properties and the
date I installed it was 15 November, so it seems logical to assume
that the e-mail scanning settings of the upgraded program was the
cause, as with version 7.1 I had no such problems when it was just
disabled in AVG. I wish I had thought of it two weeks ago!

Kate
 
Kai Schaetzl said:
Kate schrieb am Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:47:30 -0000:


What did I tell you about the quick route? ;-)
And remember, nntp is not email. Apart from that, you cannot even be
sure
that the anti-virus program really doesn't touch your email or any
other
whereabouts of the email program if you switch "email scanning" off.
It's
a matter of definition and how the scanning works.

Kai
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I did not know that AVG E-mail Scanning was listed in Services, Kai!
It was only when I was considering stopping DNS again that I noticed
it there. Disabling the plug-in in AVG always worked before with
v.7.1 (see my reply to Bruce Hagen).

Kate
 
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