Thanks, that is an interesting thought. I don't know exactly about the rules in my country, but they may be similar. I only could state that this virus scanning is just an accident - which is true, because I did not deliberately install or configure AVG for Tor or vice versa. Both programs are mostly in default configuration and are not in any way made to interact, so I would not have to expect that behaviour. And more, this "filtering" affects only a very, very small fraction of all the traffic. AVG is not even able to automatically scan POP and SMTP connections that are TLS/SSL secured, only those carelessly unsecured.
The two other choices now are: Switch off AVG's automatic e-mail scanning... I think I can remember that once or twice in the last couple of years AVG did catch a virus that was mailed to me and slipped the provider's spam filter. Or switch off e-mail ports in my or's exit policies. But about that article... the topic is: "The Other E-Mail Threat: File Corruption in Outlook Express" Do you really think I am using Outlook Express? No, please! I cannot deny that I'm using Windows, but that's bad enough. ;) Yours, Gregor On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 4:52 AM, krishna e bera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AVG (and other antivirus software) inserts a proxy that catches the email > traffic you mention. > > The risk with any examining or altering of traffic is that you may be > giving up your legal and moral claim to status as a common carrier or safe > harbour > which is perhaps the only thing protecting you from DMCA and other > prosecution in the USA. > > Microsoft and friends recommend against email scanning > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx > at least for your own email as it may confuse your email software and cause > corruption > and you are protected anyway due to the antivirus software's file access > scanning. > > Thirdly the default exit policy does not allow exit to port 25 > because it can be used by spammers and worms and > your ISP may cut off your access as it will think you are the source. >
