AVG email scanner pops up even when not collecting mail.

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Why does the AVG email scanner attempt to connect to an IP address even when
I'm not collecting mail?

Only done it once, but a little worrying all the same.

Si.
 
Why does the AVG email scanner attempt to connect to an IP address even when
I'm not collecting mail?

Only done it once, but a little worrying all the same.

Si.
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It is not doing it for you. It is doing it for itself. I have extra major
questions about it's embedded email client. It is named
Cyrus SASL 2.1.13 and so far as I can tell so far is a redhat product.

It is either creating or disclosing the creation and sending of authorless
emails within itself. (that is, a blank FROM field, not the complete header
which includes a my address as a "from")

The logs are usually named "emc" or 'emc-##' and on my machine are under
WINDOWS/Application Data/AVG7/Log/.

My question is: is it a security hole within the product or is the product
itself doing it?

Maybe someone here knows all about it.

FACE
 
FACE said:
It is not doing it for you. It is doing it for itself. I have extra
major
questions about it's embedded email client. It is named
Cyrus SASL 2.1.13 and so far as I can tell so far is a redhat product.

It is either creating or disclosing the creation and sending of authorless
emails within itself. (that is, a blank FROM field, not the complete
header
which includes a my address as a "from")

The logs are usually named "emc" or 'emc-##' and on my machine are under
WINDOWS/Application Data/AVG7/Log/.

My question is: is it a security hole within the product or is the product
itself doing it?

Maybe someone here knows all about it.

FACE
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I know AVG7 E-mail scanner doesn't like working with MailWasher... AVG6
worked fine with Mailwasher and OE, but now Mailwasher just keeps getting
connection errors and AVG7 bounces the bounced e-mails back at me!

Grrr - about to uninstall ver7 - anyone got any suggestions on good free AV
software to take its place?
 
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Martin said:
I know AVG7 E-mail scanner doesn't like working with MailWasher... AVG6
worked fine with Mailwasher and OE, but now Mailwasher just
keeps getting connection errors and AVG7 bounces the bounced e-mails
back at me!
Grrr - about to uninstall ver7 - anyone got any suggestions on good
free AV software to take its place?
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Avast !!
 
Hi,

I know AVG7 E-mail scanner doesn't like working with MailWasher... AVG6
worked fine with Mailwasher and OE, but now Mailwasher just keeps getting
connection errors and AVG7 bounces the bounced e-mails back at me!
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Yet another reason to stop bouncing Email, which is of not much use
anyway.
 
Yddap said:
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Avast !!
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So which is better, Avast or 'AntiVir' from free-av.com? I've heard that
Avast tends to slow the system down, true or not?

What is Avast like for e-mail scanning?

Please enlighten this mis-guided mis-informed peasant!!

TIA
 
I know AVG7 E-mail scanner doesn't like working with MailWasher... AVG6
worked fine with Mailwasher and OE, but now Mailwasher just keeps getting
connection errors and AVG7 bounces the bounced e-mails back at me!
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I must be doing something wrong. I read all these messages about this not
working with that etc, and find that I have some of them on my PC.

ALL are working together without any problems, so is it me and my system or
you and yours.

I have AVG7 and Mailwasher running together.
PrevX, Spybot S+D,SpywareBlaster,CCleaner,MRUBlaster and SpywareGuared all
used as on demand scanners.

Oh yes, Win XPHE SP2,

Ahh, the mysteries of the PC.

Ray.
 
Ray.Milne said:
Mines running OK with Mailwasher, maybe one of your settings is wrong.

Ray.
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No, Grisift tell you that AVG7 wont work with Mailwasher if e-mail scanning
is active AND Mailwasher tries to bounce mail back to a non-existent
server.. Where Mailwasher ignores the return errors AVG7 doesn't -
sometimes it just results in error messages about delivery probs, other
times it causes more probes (luck of the draw I guess?)

Anyway - the other e-mail scanning issues seem to have been solved by a
Grisoft update, so losing Mailwasher is a small compromise...

Cheers
 
Martin said:
No, Grisift tell you that AVG7 wont work with Mailwasher if e-mail
scanning is active AND Mailwasher tries to bounce mail back to a
non-existent server..
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Cheers
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You should never bounce mail, it just adds an extra load of cr=p to the
internet, and I see from above from AVG that AVG7 won't work if e-mail
scanning AND bounce are selected. So untick the bounce feature and it
should work OK, mine does.

Ray.
 
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