I have never paid anything for the version of AVG that I have.
I went to the EICAR AV site and tested my verion of AVG and it did detect a
virus.
Could it be that the last time I updated the AVG engine it did not fully
install? Should I uninstall it and reinstall it?
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] AVG Question
> From: "Dave Schroeder"
>> Thanks Sven,
>> After checking as you say, all options under "E-mail Scanning" are
>> checked.
>> But I still don't receive the message I used to. Could they possibly
>> have
>> discontinued this message in newer versions of AVG? I see in my original
>> e-mail, that I just copied out of a friends forwarded e-mail to me, his
>> version is 7.0.322 and my version is 7.1.362.
>
> Next FOUR lines left in Quote as a sample: This is what I got with your
> message,
> added by MY AV program...
>> --
>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date:
>> 11/11/2005
>
> Mine still has those lines. I see no way to turn it off in the free
> version...
> It looks like you have the PAID version though, and I think it can be
> turned off
> in those since I have seen people do it in the past...
>
> I would go to the EICAR AV test site and get a safe test file (or some
> different types)
> and scan them and see if the scanner is working at all...
> http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
> This file has been used by me and others for many years and dispite the
> legal disclaimers
> necessary in our modern world is quite safe. (It is nothing more that a
> forced, built-in
> "false positive" for all AV programs...)
>
> Rick Glazier.
>
>
> --
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/167 - Release Date: 11/11/2005
>
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