Where does AVG Antivirus keep the settings?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

When I load AVG Antivirus, I configure the control panel so that the
incoming and outgoing mail do NOT have written confirmations on them
that they have been scanned.

Where does AVG keep that "control panel" preference data? I've searched
the Registry using RegScanner and RegMonitor but I cannot find it.
Could it be written into a dll or dat file in the C:\Program Files\AVG
folder?

I need to know that location of that data so I can load it on other
machines without configuring each copy.

Thanks!

 

[The Six Million Dollar Man]

Hi,

When I load AVG Antivirus, I configure the control panel so that the
incoming and outgoing mail do NOT have written confirmations on them
that they have been scanned.

Where does AVG keep that "control panel" preference data? I've searched
the Registry using RegScanner and RegMonitor but I cannot find it. Could
it be written into a dll or dat file in the C:\Program Files\AVG folder?

I need to know that location of that data so I can load it on other
machines without configuring each copy.

Thanks!

Its possible someone in this group may be able to help. In the mean time
you may want to also post your question at the AVG Free Forum
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/register

 

[John Smith]

Bring up Control Center.
then e-mail scanner
then configure
then details
change text

good luck

 

[John Smith]

or

when you get to configure pane
untick the certify mail box incoming and/or outgoing

good luck again

 

[Andy Cap]

Hi,

When I load AVG Antivirus, I configure the control panel so that the
incoming and outgoing mail do NOT have written confirmations on them
that they have been scanned.

Where does AVG keep that "control panel" preference data? I've searched
the Registry using RegScanner and RegMonitor but I cannot find it.
Could it be written into a dll or dat file in the C:\Program Files\AVG
folder?

I need to know that location of that data so I can load it on other
machines without configuring each copy.

Thanks!

For Windows 98

I'd guess in the User***.cfg file

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\AVG7

It's probably slightly different for XP

Andy

 

[Gert van der Kooij]

Hi,

When I load AVG Antivirus, I configure the control panel so that the
incoming and outgoing mail do NOT have written confirmations on them
that they have been scanned.

Where does AVG keep that "control panel" preference data? I've searched
the Registry using RegScanner and RegMonitor but I cannot find it.
Could it be written into a dll or dat file in the C:\Program Files\AVG
folder?

I need to know that location of that data so I can load it on other
machines without configuring each copy.

Thanks!

Use FileMon from www.sysinternals.com, set the filter to AVG and you
will see in which files AVG saves it's settings.

 

[Rednax]

Where does AVG keep that "control panel" preference data? I've searched
the Registry using RegScanner and RegMonitor but I cannot find it.
Could it be written into a dll or dat file in the C:\Program Files\AVG
folder?

AVG7 makes two folders with configuration data:

c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\avg7\

and

c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\AVG7\

It also has a cfgn. entry in HKCU\software.

It's all over the registry though. Don't like that.

Rednax

 

[Anonymous]

On 1/18/2006, Anonymous wrote

When I load AVG Antivirus, I configure the control panel so that the incoming
and outgoing mail do NOT have written confirmations on them that they have
been scanned...

My thanks to everyone who contributed to this conversation. I was not
able to find the specific configuration files that I was looking for,
but your suggestions led me to a couple of new files and folders that I
had not previously searched. I want to tell you about one of them.

I found eml.log in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\avg7\Log folder of my Win2K machine.

That log file contains every email this machine has ever received since
AVG was installed, when that email arrived, who sent it and their email
address. Of course, the logging behavior can be changed in the control
panel so that it wipes out each log daily and starts a new one. The
default installation is to keep the original log and add to it
forevermore.

Some people may not look favorably upon this log. Personally, I thought
it was a good way to track whose account is trying to send dangerous
attachments to you. Although it seemed like an odd behavior for an
antivirus program to keep track all of the incoming email addresses and
keep them forever by default. Sophisticated malware that can evade
AVG's scanner could also tap into that file and get those addresses.
The list in eml.log isn't as extensive as the entire address book in
the email client, but that log *does* contain the addresses of the
people who regularly correspond with you.

Just a quick head's-up for our friends who may be interested...

Cheers.

 

[John Corliss]

On 1/18/2006, Anonymous wrote


My thanks to everyone who contributed to this conversation. I was not
able to find the specific configuration files that I was looking for,
but your suggestions led me to a couple of new files and folders that I
had not previously searched. I want to tell you about one of them.

I found eml.log in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\avg7\Log folder of my Win2K machine.

That log file contains every email this machine has ever received since
AVG was installed, when that email arrived, who sent it and their email
address. Of course, the logging behavior can be changed in the control
panel so that it wipes out each log daily and starts a new one. The
default installation is to keep the original log and add to it forevermore.

Some people may not look favorably upon this log. Personally, I thought
it was a good way to track whose account is trying to send dangerous
attachments to you. Although it seemed like an odd behavior for an
antivirus program to keep track all of the incoming email addresses and
keep them forever by default. Sophisticated malware that can evade AVG's
scanner could also tap into that file and get those addresses. The list
in eml.log isn't as extensive as the entire address book in the email
client, but that log *does* contain the addresses of the people who
regularly correspond with you.

Just a quick head's-up for our friends who may be interested...

Cheers.

Well *I'm* interested! I verified that this is the case on my machine
too. Thanks for posting this!

Not quite sure what you mean by "in the Control Panel" though. Did you
mean "Control Center"? If so, where is the setting? I looked and
couldn't find it, but AVG's settings are convoluted by design, so I'm
sure I'm missing something. Also, I have the email scanning module
disabled for various reasons I won't go into here. Probably the module
has to be enabled in order to change the setting? At any rate, I simply
deleted the log.

Thanks again.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi John,

Well *I'm* interested! I verified that this is the case on my machine too.
Thanks for posting this!

You're welcome. Let me give credit to the people who tried to help me
answer my question that started this thread. It was *their* answers
that led me to the AVG log file.

Not quite sure what you mean by "in the Control Panel" though. Did you mean
"Control Center"? If so, where is the setting? I looked and couldn't find
it...

Sorry, my fingers were typing faster than my brain was thinking. Let me
try it again.

I found the commands to control the behavior of the AVG log file by:

* Double clicking on the tray icon for AVG (which brings up AVG's
Control Center).
* Double click on the Email Scanner box located within the AVG Control
Center. This produces the box called "AVG Control Center - Email
Scanner"
* Make sure that you're on the Plugins tab (should be the default,
but...)
* Click the Properties button and produce the box called "Personal
Email Scanner Setup"
* Click the "Logging" tab
* All of the log controls are there.

Cheers, my friend!

 

[Arne Anka]

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Well *I'm* interested! I verified that this is the case on my machine
too. Thanks for posting this!

Well, I never installed the email scanning module, so there are no logs of
that kind here. Only (encrypted) logs from file-scannings.

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[Harvey Van Sickle]

Well *I'm* interested! I verified that this is the case on my
machine too. Thanks for posting this!

Well, I never installed the email scanning module, so there
are no logs of that kind here. Only (encrypted) logs from
file-scannings.[/QUOTE]

Same here -- just those and the logs from updating the virus
database.

 

[Steve H]

Well *I'm* interested! I verified that this is the case on my machine
too. Thanks for posting this!

Not quite sure what you mean by "in the Control Panel" though. Did you
mean "Control Center"? If so, where is the setting? I looked and
couldn't find it, but AVG's settings are convoluted by design, so I'm
sure I'm missing something. Also, I have the email scanning module
disabled for various reasons I won't go into here. Probably the module
has to be enabled in order to change the setting? At any rate, I simply
deleted the log.

I have the email scanner disabled, so I couldn't access any logs via
the properties panel for that item.
Checked the relevant folder in Windows ( 98 ) and found a number of
logs, none of which contained any email data...and none of which were
readable anyway.

Regards,

 

[John Corliss]

Hi John,


You're welcome. Let me give credit to the people who tried to help me
answer my question that started this thread. It was *their* answers that
led me to the AVG log file.


Sorry, my fingers were typing faster than my brain was thinking. Let me
try it again.

I found the commands to control the behavior of the AVG log file by:

* Double clicking on the tray icon for AVG (which brings up AVG's
Control Center).
* Double click on the Email Scanner box located within the AVG Control
Center. This produces the box called "AVG Control Center - Email Scanner"
* Make sure that you're on the Plugins tab (should be the default, but...)
* Click the Properties button and produce the box called "Personal Email
Scanner Setup"
* Click the "Logging" tab
* All of the log controls are there.

Thanks. It's as I thought, I've uninstalled that module and it needs to
be installed for those options to be available. Guess deleting the log
doesn't hurt anything.

Cheers, my friend!

Thanks for replying!