AVG Free Edition Behaves Badly With Thunderbird
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/24/2004 03:22 PM [ Print | 4 comment(s) ] · 6167 views
I'm sure many slashdot readers (those of us using Windows, of course) have AVG Free Edition installed on their machines. Couple that with Mozilla Thunderbird and you have a virus fighting duo. Only, the latest updates to AVG Free Edition seem to break the E-Mail scanner with Thunderbird, preventing passwords from validating correctly. On the bright side, if you can't receive any e-mails, you can't get infected by them! Hexus.net have more details. Note: At the time of writing the AVG Free Edition website seems to be running rather slowly.
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DrTeeth Unregistered |
#58845 Posted on: 12/24/2004 03:39 PM
What is the point of email scanning anyway? The resident antivirus scanner will pick up any infected emails before they can cause harm. It's a non-issue IMHO. |
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kez Unregistered |
#58846 Posted on: 12/24/2004 04:11 PM
Hence why I (Steve, HEXUS News Editor) don't use the e-mail scanner. 
I'm fairly confident that the resident scanner and Thunderbirds security over Outlook will leave me safe. |
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apathy Unregistered Posts: 1 Joined: 2003-09-26 |
#58847 Posted on: 12/24/2004 04:37 PM
I use the mail scanner with TB and avg but have not noticed any problems and i keep avg updated daily. |
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El_Coyote Unregistered Posts: 503 Joined: 2002-12-18 |
#58869 Posted on: 12/26/2004 03:18 PM
i saw avg got email protection got disabled, but then i just re-enabled it and it worked fine again. |
