Bruce is absolutely correct. He often cites this excerpt from the
knowledge base at Symantec - the company that makes Norton AntiVirus:

"Even though email scanning is disabled, your computer is still
protected from viruses. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect will scan email
attachments when you save the attachment to the hard drive. After you
disable email scanner, be sure that Auto-Protect is enabled, and then
run LiveUpdate regularly to insure that Auto-Protect has been optimally
configured. Auto-Protect provides real-time virus protection from any
source, including the Internet, and will automatically scan email
attachments whenever they are accessed."

The same is true for other antivirus programs.

---
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

JMF wrote:
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