I'm straying into unfamiliar territory here so perhaps some kind person
might put me straight.

My experimental install of XP Pro has gone very well - so well I might even
keep it, instead of waiting for a possible second edition, as I'd promised
myself.

Anyway, while the spirit of experimentation was on me, I thought I'd try the
free AntiVirus prog, AVG.

The install of that went extremely well also, these guys are to be
complimented on the presentation and useability of their program.

However, downloading mail has presented me with a problem. I received 2
mails which are obviously virus carriers.  I say obviously, because I've
received dozens in the last few months, and these two fit all the
parameters.
Both are carrying attachments - one a pif and a text file, the other a .scr
and an htm file.

I'd guarantee these are both malicious.

But AVG made not a bleep or a whimper, either when these mails arrived, or
when I previewed them and their attachments (single click).

Whereas on my other drive, running W98SE and Norton AV2002, I would have got
a pop-up Norton window immediately the infected mail header downloaded,
warning me of the bug and prompting for action.

So I'm not sure what to do next.  I ran an AVG scan of the Windows folder
(as I couldn't find and single out the XP mailbox) and that got a clean bill
of health.

And I could delete the 2 mails but I'm not going to learn anything that way.

Informed comment would be most welcome.

TIA

Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand

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