Re: TURN OFF EMAIL SCANNING (was Re: Do not turn off email scanning)

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From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_chattanooga.net)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:06:55 -0500

"mikey" <mikeyhsd@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:OjDAe7uCEHA.3408@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
true but they are advising to turn off email scanning regardless not just for norton and mcafee.

>that is a bit irresponsible .

Wrong. We are being conservative in saying do this generally to protect the OE message store. We can't go around and check every AV product out there, and each version of it. Besides, as we've argued over and over again, scanning email provides no benefit to the user, if they have their system being scanned all the time anyway.

I'm not convinced that AVG's email scanning is perfect and doesn't interfere with OE. I've seen some messages where AVG was clearly used and the user was having problems.

steve

mikeyhsd@bellsouth.net

"N. Miller" <nsm@blackhole.aosake.net> wrote in message news:MPG.1abfb697c4bfefc6989df4@msnews.microsoft.com...
In article <Oav2oNpCEHA.1688@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, mikeyhsd@bellsouth.net
says...

> if using Norton and/or McAfee turn off scanning.

> BUT have yet to hear of a case where AVG corrupted the DBX files.

> AVG email scanning has caught numerous virus for me that were not in attachments.
> and have NEVER in years of use corrupted the data base.

Nobody who has had any troubles has been using AVG. The MVPs are addressing
people who have had problems, and those are Norton and McAfee users. 

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