OT: AVG 7 Help Plz

[Dragon]

Just installed AVG 7 Free edtion but now when i recieve emails from anywhere
they say they have attachments but there isnt, anyway tried send myself one
and the same.

Went into setting switiched off email scanning worked okay but now how do i
send an email with the verify at the bottom like avg 6 did

cheers dave

 

[Fitz]

You don't have to switch off email scanning. I had the same problem, and
found that the "certification message" that is added is what is being
detected as an attachment. You can turn off mail certification but leave
email scanning on, and you will not get the attachment indicator.

Fitz

 

[Ron Martell]

You don't have to switch off email scanning. I had the same problem, and
found that the "certification message" that is added is what is being
detected as an attachment. You can turn off mail certification but leave
email scanning on, and you will not get the attachment indicator.

Fitz

Email scanning should be turned off on all computers under all
circumstances. It is basically all hype and no substance.

See MVP Tom Koch's article on Outlook Express file corruption at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx
especially the section "Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of
Corruption".

Symantec used to have some technical documents on their web site that
discussed the futility of email scanning but marketing and or p.r.
concerns prevailed and the articles have disappeared.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Fitz]

So I would have been better off with the virus's (most inadvertently sent by
people I knew who didn't know they were infected) rather than having them
detected and removed by the email scanner of my anti-virus? I'll stick with
the scan-

Thanks
Fitz

 

[Roy Coorne]

So I would have been better off with the virus's (most inadvertently sent by
people I knew who didn't know they were infected) rather than having them
detected and removed by the email scanner of my anti-virus? I'll stick with
the scan-

Your scanner should act whenever you open an attachment (and you are
careful, aren't you, in choosing which attachments you open;-).

Roy

 

[André Gulliksen]

So I would have been better off with the virus's (most inadvertently
sent by people I knew who didn't know they were infected) rather than
having them detected and removed by the email scanner of my
anti-virus? I'll stick with the scan-

What Ron was trying to point out was probably that AV integration with
e-mail clients creates more problems than it solves. If you get an infected
e-mail the real time scanner should pick that up anyways, if you should try
to run any nasty attachments.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

So I would have been better off with the virus's (most inadvertently
sent by people I knew who didn't know they were infected) rather than
having them detected and removed by the email scanner of my
anti-virus? I'll stick with the scan-

Thanks
Fitz

AVG will prevent you from opening or saving the attachment if it contains a
virus that AVG knows about. Email scanning slows down sending and receiving
email and can cause the operation to fail.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[mikey]

I agree, the e-mail scan is a nice thing to have.
on a properly configured system there are no MAJOR problems.
only thing I notice is having to exit and run again OE to compact all folder.
a minor inconvenience for peace of mind.




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So I would have been better off with the virus's (most inadvertently sent by
people I knew who didn't know they were infected) rather than having them
detected and removed by the email scanner of my anti-virus? I'll stick with
the scan-

Thanks
Fitz

 

[Alex Nichol]

Email scanning should be turned off on all computers under all
circumstances. It is basically all hype and no substance.

I don't agree with such a blanket condemnation. I run eTrust email
scan, together with Forte Agent as my main email, but also with
Thunderbird which I am trying out for the benefit of others. And when I
get mail from the address I use, munged, in my handle here, or in
another account that is there mostly as a spam trap, I find it comes up
with a neat, clear display of viruses detected and cleaned/removed - and
they have indeed done so. Even in zip attachments. Not that this means
you should not bother with a separate scan on saving attachments, but it
is certainly providing a good initial defence