AVG Free Edition and Thunderbird

[Blayze]

I can't get AVG Free edition to scan my incoming mail in Thunderbird. Is there some way to do this?

If not how does Avast! (I know that it will scan incoming mail in Thunderbird) compare to AVG?

 

[Schadenfroh]

woahh, AVG is supposed to actually incoming/outgoing mail in thunderbird? i thought it worked only with outlook

 

[discostusback]

i read in some PC magazine that having AVG was like having nothing at all. If you want something fre i would go with Avast stuff.

 

[randumb]

Originally posted by: discostusback
i read in some PC magazine that having AVG was like having nothing at all. If you want something fre i would go with Avast stuff.

AVG might not match commercial stuff, but I think it's the best of the free antivirus programs.

 

[Blayze]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
woahh, AVG is supposed to actually incoming/outgoing mail in thunderbird? i thought it worked only with outlook

thats what I was wondering. I see the setting to enable Outlook plugin and it works with Outlook Express. I was just wondering if there was a way to set it up with Thunderbird.

 

[1Cheap2Crazy]

According to http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.8 it says,

Is Thunderbird susceptible to e-mail viruses?

Thunderbird will not allow a virus or worm to execute automatically. You can see what attachments have been sent to you without a virus being able to execute, and you would have to save a file to your system and deliberately run it before it could cause any harm.

JavaScript is switched off by default for mail and news, so an e-mail cannot run script code just by being opened.

As with any mail program, take proper caution before running any file that you receive in e-mail. Appropriate anti-virus software should also help keep you safer.

Your mail files are inside your profile (see the Profile Folder), in the Mail and (if you use IMAP) ImapMail folders. Each mail folder (Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files ? one with no extension (e.g. INBOX), which is the mail file itself (in "mbox" format), and one with an .msf extension (e.g. INBOX.msf), which is the index (Mail Summary File) to the mail file. Tell the other program to import mail from the file with no extension.

If you want to transfer a mail file to another Mozilla profile or another installation of Mozilla, simply put the mail file into the other installation's Mail folder.

Does that help you?

 

[SeTeS]

Well, I can say for certain that AVG isn't Outlook only. It works fine with Eudora.

I haven't seen the aforementioned article, but AVG has worked fine for for years now on my system.