No e-mail scanning, really?
 

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

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

"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/

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

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

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

"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.

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

For some reason, just unchecking it in the security center causes a conflict
with the Windows Security Center. I always advise people that are currently
using AVG to remove it and reinstall it in Custom mode and uncheck e-mail
scanning during the install as others have already suggested.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"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

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

"Richard in AZ" wrote in message
...

"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.

Thanks! It worked perfectly, as you said.

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.

Thanks to you and all the others.

John

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

Hi,

Please excuse my confusion. I have AVG. I would like to turn off E-Mail
Scanning.
Would I then have to save an attachment and scan it manually to remain
protected, as some seem to suggest?
Would I need to have Norton installed, as others seem to recommend?

Andy I.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
: For some reason, just unchecking it in the security center causes a
conflict
: with the Windows Security Center. I always advise people that are
currently
: using AVG to remove it and reinstall it in Custom mode and uncheck e-mail
: scanning during the install as others have already suggested.
: --
: Bruce Hagen
: MS-MVP Outlook Express
: ~IB-CA~
:
: "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
:
:
:

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

With AVG, to disable email scanning, it's recommended that you uninstall the
program, reboot, and then reinstall, using the option to do a "Custom"
install and omit the email scanning. With the "Resident Shield" installed
and hopefully updated on a regular basis, any attempt to open or save an
infected file, would provide a warning about the file status. You would not
need another AV program and using more than one can create a host of
problems. Don't even think about doing that.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.


"Andy" [email protected] wrote in message
...
Hi,

Please excuse my confusion. I have AVG. I would like to turn off E-Mail
Scanning.
Would I then have to save an attachment and scan it manually to remain
protected, as some seem to suggest?
Would I need to have Norton installed, as others seem to recommend?

Andy I.


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
: For some reason, just unchecking it in the security center causes a
conflict
: with the Windows Security Center. I always advise people that are
currently
: using AVG to remove it and reinstall it in Custom mode and uncheck
e-mail
: scanning during the install as others have already suggested.
: --
: Bruce Hagen
: MS-MVP Outlook Express
: ~IB-CA~
:
: "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
:
:
:

No e-mail scanning, really?
 

Thanks Jim.
Much clearer now.

Andy I.


"Jim Pickering" jimp (AT) mvps.org wrote in message
...
: With AVG, to disable email scanning, it's recommended that you uninstall
the
: program, reboot, and then reinstall, using the option to do a "Custom"
: install and omit the email scanning. With the "Resident Shield" installed
: and hopefully updated on a regular basis, any attempt to open or save an
: infected file, would provide a warning about the file status. You would
not
: need another AV program and using more than one can create a host of
: problems. Don't even think about doing that.
: --
: Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
:
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
: Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
:
:
: "Andy" [email protected] wrote in message
: ...
: Hi,
:
: Please excuse my confusion. I have AVG. I would like to turn off
E-Mail
: Scanning.
: Would I then have to save an attachment and scan it manually to remain
: protected, as some seem to suggest?
: Would I need to have Norton installed, as others seem to recommend?
:
: Andy I.
: