"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

AVG tends to nag you if you just turn off the email scanner. But if you also uncheck the "plug-in"
box the nag will go away.
I have installed AVG on a lot of machines now and I use the "custom" installation and uncheck the
email scan. Then it does not nag the user. AVG's email scanning is not only unnecessary, but it
slows down the email program significantly on dial-up connections and it adds an attachment to every
message. The attachment being the simple statement that this email was scanned with AVG.