AVG Free Edition - E-Mail Scanner Broken?

This situation was posted within a discussion on another issue at

http://forums.windrivers.com/showthr...238#post433238

and I thought it might warrant its own thread lest someone has found a solution.

For whatever reason, my AVG's e-mail scanner does not appear to work, regardless of whether the 'Outlook Express 5 Plugin' is enabled or not. Now, it was mentioned this might have something to do with IE6's SP1/OE6 updates, but not certain. I did not have AVG running prior to the SP1 update, so no way of knowing.

I'm pretty cautious when it comes to incoming emails but it would be *nice* if the feature worked!

AVG Free doesn't include Support, as we know, and this is not generally a big issue as long as they keep up the virus definitions, though a little timely updating from Grisoft would not go amiss, especially if this a acknowledged problem. And I've no way of knowing if they've solved this in their 'commercial' product - AVG 7 - either...

Anyone else experiencing this problem and, more importantly, anyone found a solution that dosen't involve major surgery of IE/OE?

Thanks!
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avg faq did you mean the certification on outgoing on incoming mail?

Well, somehow I missed that FAQ, NooNoo, so that's part of the issue solved!

The fact remains though that despite what this says I have had attachments come thru with some of the more 'popular' viruses going and AVG didn't seem to catch them - so hard to tell if the email scanner is working at all - if you get my drift...

And I have AVG check for definitions daily.

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Originally Posted by bazcook

The fact remains though that despite what this says I have had attachments come thru with some of the more 'popular' viruses going and AVG didn't seem to catch them - so hard to tell if the email scanner is working at all - if you get my drift...

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You can email yourself a test file from the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research. It is a harmless file that most AV programs, including AVG, are told to detect as a virus for testing purposes.