[BC] AVG "Free"

[Kirk Harnack]

Alan Kline replied:

> 
> I just turned off the mail scanner. Since I use Mailwasher Pro to
> screen
> my mail before I download it, I can be fairly confident that I'm not
> downloading anything nasty. If it looks suspicious, or if Mailwasher
> flags it, I delete it from my ISP's server. End of problem.
> 
> The mail scanner in 8.0 appears to run *much* slower than in version 7,
> as well. Or at least, it slowed my mail downloading *way* down.

Alan,

You caused me to think about this..   I send ALL my e-mail through gmail
first.  Does a great job of spam filtering.  Anyone know if gmail does a
reasonable virus check on attachments?  Perhaps I don't need for AVG to
check incoming e-mails.  Besides, e-mail distribution of viruses is
old-fashioned now.

Best,

Kirk