February 25th, 2007, 10:02 AM
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I configured tbird to access my gmail account by pop. Do I need to configure AVG to scan the gmail messages or has gmail already scanned them?
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February 25th, 2007, 10:48 AM
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February 25th, 2007, 11:07 AM
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Can I rely on the gmail scan as effective enough and scanning with avg unneedded?
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February 25th, 2007, 11:09 AM
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If the virus system might miss something like AVG does. When in doubt, just delete the file.
No anti virus is full proof, personally i think two anti virus systems is a bit of an overload. | |
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February 25th, 2007, 11:19 AM
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Thats what I thought. Just wanted to here it from an expert.
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February 25th, 2007, 02:40 PM
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it's not like resident scanning. It's entirely possible that avg may get a definition out before the gmail scanner does. also avg uses heuristics. I really doubt gmail has the processing power to run heuristic scans on all of their emails (that would be quite a feat). I would keep avg scanning the emails. what's it take...a second per email at the worst? | |
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February 26th, 2007, 12:10 PM
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It doesn't cost you anything to run AVG as well. Just to give you an extra warm & fuzzy feeling.
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February 27th, 2007, 10:02 AM
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I use Gmail pop3 with AVG scanner. | |
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