Just as a by the way ... the forums of avast are far less
authoritarian and, in my judgment, more valuable in their
participation than those of AVG.

On Jan 8, 2:02 am, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I suspect you are correct in your assessment of the concern.
>
> I guess you missed my sticky post in the AVG 7.x email forums that
> told you how to get the emails received through services like this
> scanned - I have not bothered to look at AVG 8 which seemed to move
> most of the moderators in the Thunderbird forums to recommend against
> using it.  It was certainly not the prettiest of solutions (rather
> like the way AVG later provided for scanning secure server
> connections).  The scanning solution was done much more elegantly in
> the anti-virus I far prefer - avast (just check one box in the GUI)
> and avast scans all my emails received through the Webmail extensions.
>
> In the case of NOD32 ... some time ago I registered in their service
> to help out another Thunderbird user with problems. Of course I did
> not pay for the product and I doubt they will give me another trial
> period so soon to see how their product works.
>
> On Jan 8, 1:38 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Alan,
> > I think Julian's question was actually about getting NOD32 to scan
> > emails received with the extensions. Rather than complaining that NOD32
> > is interfering with the extensions, he thinks that it doesn't do enough.
> > If I recall, this is the same for all email virus scanners, as the
> > server through which the mail last passes is localhost, an internal
> > server on your computer, the scanner assumes there is no threat and
> > doesn't scan mails. Certainly my AVG doesn't scan incoming mail through
> > the extensions.
>
> > alanrf wrote:
> > > I am not a user of NOD32.
>
> > > However, I get the impression from other post here that it may be the
> > > cause of problems with the Webmail extensions/add-ons in the default
> > > configuration.
>
> > > Please think about trying the following steps:
>
> > > The default configuration for the Webmail extension is to use the
> > > ports 110 for POP (receiving email) and 25 for SMTP (sending email).
>
> > > If NOD32 is (let's be polite) causing issues with these ports then it
> > > may be well to try different port numbers that may not be interferred
> > > with by NOD32.
>
> > > Port numbers are (for email anyway) not magic ... they are just
> > > numbers.
>
> > > So may I suggest that you try this ....
>
> > > In the main Webmail extension change the POP port to say 2110 and the
> > > SMTP port to 2025
>
> > > Then in your Hotmail or Yahoo account in the Thunderbird settings
> > > change the POP port for the account from 110 to 2110 and in the SMTP
> > > entry for the account change the port from 25 to 2025.
>
> > > Does this help at all?
>
> > > On Jan 7, 5:08 pm, julian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> I am using nod32 v 3.0.669.0 as my complete internet security
> > >> solution. I really like it but the only problem I am having is that
> > >> nod32 will not scan any of the incoming mails. I ran a e-mail test
> > >> called GFI Email Security Test and all of the e-mails got downloaded.
> > >> The only time it blocked them is when I tried to open the attachments.
> > >> Also in the system overview it says Email Protection, number of emails
> > >> scanned 0. What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance.
>
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > > Checked by AVG -http://www.avg.com
> > > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1881 - Release Date: 1/7/2009 
> > > 5:59 PM
>
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