AV plugin vs. 'regular' incoming email scanner

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Posts: 2 Points: 1 Rating: 0 Authority: 0 Joined: 08 August 2009

12 November 2009 14:27:43

I've just 'upgraded' to AVG 9 fr om 8 and The Bat (4.2.6) has started to hang on shutdown with a "Processing Folders" window, leaving a process/thread that could not be killed short of rebooting (Vista SP2). Looking at it in Process Explorer, I saw an AVG child process under The Bat. I then saw wh ere AVG had apparently installed an AV plugin in The Bat. After removing this plugin, I've (so far!) not seen a recurrence of any of these issues... so far!

My question - If AVG already scans all emails (coming and going, configurably), what additional functionality am I losing by NOT specifically using the plugin?

It appears there is a conflict in using it. Hopefully this is also the fix to the hung mail retreivals, etc. that I've seen lately.

Thanks!

bigg one

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Posts: 612 Points: 550 Rating: 14 Authority: 14 Joined: 02 February 2005

12 November 2009 22:59:22

you lose nothing, except maybe that a plugin can scan encrypted messages. Not sure though.

I don't scan my pop/smtp traffic at all, and my AV app is configured not to monitor my mail folder. That's because it's absolutely safe to have viruses in your messages. What's dangerous is to execute/open a file with a virus, but indeed I don't do that (and even if I do, it'll be first extracted to a temp folder and AV will catch it)

Len Philpot Beginner Posts: 2 Points: 1 Rating: 0 Authority: 0 Joined: 08 August 2009	#3 0 13 November 2009 02:15:08 Well, as it turns out removing the AVG plugin has not ended the TB shutdown issues. I've opened a support incident on that. But having the plugin out of the way is one less issue to work around.

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