2009/3/18 Barbara Duprey <b...@onr.com> > Web Kracked wrote: > >> NoOp wrote: >> >>> On 03/17/2009 02:22 PM, Web Kracked wrote: >>> >>>> Andrew Fisk wrote: >>>> >>>>> user computer -- if nothing else avg 8 was not out until late 2008 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> The AVG antivirus was from my in/out email scanning system. >>>> The original email did not have any AVG stuff >>>> except what my system placed on it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> You should turn it off... it's pretty irritating :-) >>> >>> >> Are you saying I should turn off my Anti-Virus protection? >> Turn off my system that makes sure the email coming in >> are not infected and the email I send are not infected? >> >> Do you know how many email people receive each year that has >> an infection? I get plenty of them. And once from this list. >> >> It may be irritating to some, but it is better than getting an >> infection via email you open. >> >> I have Hardware firewall through my router, and software >> firewall via ZoneAlarm. I have anti-virus via AVG. I have >> several other security programs running all the time. Since >> then, I have never got an infection. I can even download an >> infection and it is automatically cleaned or healed and >> then I am warned about it. >> >> So no one should turn off their computer's security protection. >> > Definitely nobody should turn the protection off! But AVG has some setting > options for whether to insert its own messages into incoming and outgoing > mail, and for some unknown reason they are both on by default. You can turn > them off by deselecting the "Certify" options under Tools > Advanced > settings > E-mail Scanner, while leaving the "Check" options selected, and > that's what was being recommended. > > Thank you, Barbara.
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