Below explains why you do not need e-mail scanning. Your resident protection
is the basics of your AV program.

AVG does protect you if you open an infected attachment regardless of e-mail
scanning being disabled. Note that your AV program protects your computer
from letting a virus in. It does not remove the virus from the attachment
and make it safe for others when forwarded. They must rely on their AV
program to protect them

As for your last question, why would you forward an attachment to someone if
you didn't know what was in it?

Turning off e-mail scanning is safe. See:

Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ion.mspx#EOAAC

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email:
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

Turn off email scanning in your antivirus softwa
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

And this is from Symantec, but applies to all anti-virus programs.

From:
http://snipurl.com/bmf6

Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email Scanning?

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.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"peejaa" wrote in message
...
Can you expand -what is my resident real time protection?

So although my AVG program is set to NOT scan incoming e-mail messages AVG
does scan any attached files when I open them?

And, if I did forward on a pic without opening and viewing it THEN I could
send onto to another an infected file?

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"Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote in message
...
Well, if you've opened and viewed it, your resident realtime protection
will
have scanned it.

"peejaa" wrote in message
...
: No, receive an e-mail that has an attachment, say, a jpg file, view it
then
: forward the e-message together with the attachment to another.
:
: "Ron Sommer" wrote in message
: ...
: Are you saying that you forward without checking what you are
forwarding?
: --
: Ronald Sommer
:
: "peejaa" wrote in message
: ...
: I know Bruce explained to an earlier message that this is not
necessary
: (see below)....but is there any chance that I could infect someone
else
: if I just forward an e-message with an infected attachment ie before
its
: been saved to my hard drive?
:
: ===============================
: Leave it off, but............
:
: Reinstall AVG and choose Custom Mode. Uncheck E-mail Scanning when
you
: see
: that option. Just unchecking it in the AVG Security Center usually
causes
: a
: conflict with the Windows Security Center.
:
: Turning off e-mail scanning is safe. See:
:
: Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption:
:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...ion.mspx#EOAAC
:
: Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email:
: http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
:
: Turn off email scanning in your antivirus softwa
: http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3
:
: And this is from Symantec, but applies to all anti-virus programs.
:
: From:
: http://snipurl.com/bmf6
:
: Is my computer still protected against viruses if I disable Email
: Scanning?
:
: 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.
:
:
:
: