"JMF" wrote in message
...
Sorry to be paranoid and ask for extra confirmation on this, but I want to
be absolutely sure. I read this post yesterday:

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant
layer of protection that eats up CPUs and causes a multitude of problems
such as time-outs and account setting changes. Your up-to-date A/V
program
will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Personally, I use AVG Free for my anti-virus program, and it hasn't let
me
down yet, and I have had it for two years.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

I have AVG Free, too, and just turned off the e-mail scanner, and AVG
complained, saying the E-Mail Scanner is not fully functional.

From what Bruce wrote in his post, this should be okay. Do I have it
right?

Thanks,

John

Yes.
paste
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
/paste
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Using virus protection features in Outlook Express 6
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291387

See:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ion.mspx#EOAAC

Read all the article:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx

HTH?

--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]
http://www.getsafeonline.org/