Ditch AVG for Avast?

Charity_Dalek

gaming_guy wrote: »

save the file to the desktop and scan it with avira.

That's quite a limiting factor of the product if you have to save the email and then scan it from the desktop..

Whilst AVG is slow, takes 4 hours to scan my pc, it automatically scans any incoming mails.

I shall be staying with AVG then.

roswell

Set your default scan to a fast scan that should speed it up a little bit.

Charity_Dalek

roswell wrote: »

Set your default scan to a fast scan that should speed it up a little bit.

Thanks, I tried that but it made lttle difference. I have assumed that you were refering to AVG.

Robert

Charity_Dalek

Seeing as Avira does not scan emails does Avast? I looked on their website but it was not apparent.

Marty_J

Charity_Dalek wrote: »

That's quite a limiting factor of the product if you have to save the email and then scan it from the desktop..

Whilst AVG is slow, takes 4 hours to scan my pc, it automatically scans any incoming mails.

I shall be staying with AVG then.

You don't have to save it to your desktop; Avira will scan it when you open it and then warn you if it finds an infection in it, just as it does with everything else.

Doesn't your provider scan for viruses in your email anyway?

Charity_Dalek

Marty_J wrote: »

You don't have to save it to your desktop; Avira will scan it when you open it and then warn you if it finds an infection in it, just as it does with everything else.

Doesn't your provider scan for viruses in your email anyway?

Not sure but I will check.

markymark2901

So Avira does scan your emails before opening them ?

Can someone confirm and I will replace AVG with Avira

Thanks

Marty_J

It scans every file when you open it.

An email scanner scans your mail as its being downloaded.

Just because it doesn't have email scanning, it doesn't mean that you aren't protected against viruses in emails.

Here's a discussion of the pros and cons:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Email_scanning_-_pros_and_cons

And just so we're clear, if you only use webmail (i.e. you check your email in your browser) email scanning is 100% useless.

aliEnRIK

Charity_Dalek wrote: »

That's quite a limiting factor of the product if you have to save the email and then scan it from the desktop..

Whilst AVG is slow, takes 4 hours to scan my pc, it automatically scans any incoming mails.

I shall be staying with AVG then.

Please realise that if AVG doesnt KNOW theres a virus in the email because of its poor detection rates then your going to get infected anyways

sarahpallins

I recommend Kaspersky Anti Virus 2009
Ditch both AVG and avast :rotfl: