My subscription for NAV just ran out so I decided I'd give AVG's free anti-virus a shot. I've been happy with it for the day I've used it but I haven't really gotten into the nuts and bolts yet. One thing I noticed this morning when checking my pop3 email was that it scanned my mail. I remember having to turn off email scanning in NAV or else it would fail everytime I tried to send or recieve an attachment larger than about 500kb.
My wife and I are pretty concious about our email and we don't open attachments that seem even remotely suspicious. We don't get hardly any spam through at that address, the bulk of our mail both personal and spam is through a free yahoo account. Yahoo scans all attachments automatically so I feel like I'm pretty well protected even without AVG scanning my email, I may just turn it off like I did with NAV to prevent any problems.
Does anybody scan emails for viruses, have you found a lot of viruses this way?
My wife and I are pretty concious about our email and we don't open attachments that seem even remotely suspicious. We don't get hardly any spam through at that address, the bulk of our mail both personal and spam is through a free yahoo account. Yahoo scans all attachments automatically so I feel like I'm pretty well protected even without AVG scanning my email, I may just turn it off like I did with NAV to prevent any problems.
Does anybody scan emails for viruses, have you found a lot of viruses this way?
