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Posted by Tom H. on June 11, 2005, 8:34 pm
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> In news: Tom H. typed:
>> Hello all,
>> I am running the AVG 7 freeware on win XP home with Outlook Express.
>> About a month ago the email scanner started acting up. The first
>> problem to show up was from spam that I had forwarded as attachments
>> to the anti spam mailbox for my ISP (Worldnet). I would get a reply
>> saying something like the message was rejected because of a bad byte.
>> Then I turned off the outgoing message scanning and the returned
>> message problem went away. Now however, the scanning pop-up message
>> still shows up for outgoing messages, then after a while, the
>> scanning pop-up goes berserk. The pop-up box that shows the scanning
>> activity would not stop popping up, it would continue over and over
>> again. Uninstalling and reinstalling AVG does not help. Then I
>> started watching the QUEUE folder. In QUEUE\ACTIVE I would see
>> several files, and if I was connected to the net with Outlook Express
>> running I could watch files come and go from that folder even though
>> I was not sending or receiving mail, but the folder would never
>> become empty. Following that I deleted all files in QUEUE\ACTIVE ,
>> and uninstalled and reinstalled AVG. That fixed things for maybe a
>> day and now the problem has returned, and some of my outgoing
>> messages never went out. I have now deactivated the email scanning
>> function of AVG entirely, and that stopped the problem, but I am now
>> without automatic virus scanning of incoming email.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can fix this?
>>
>> TIA,
>
> Tom, email scanning on incoming viruses is a WASTE OF TIME and SYSTEM
> RESORCES.
>
> Immediatly disable email scanning.
>
> If you chose to open an infected email attachement then the anti virus
> resident scanner will alert you of the danger.
>
> Read the MANY previous posts on this topic and in alt.privacy.spyware
>
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