Kate schrieb am Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:47:30 -0000:

Although I have always had e-mail scanning turned off in AVG Free, on
Thursday night I disabled it in Manage/Services & Applications and,
lo! no more tiresome message re `no connection available`.
Coincidence maybe?

What did I tell you about the quick route? ;-)
And remember, nntp is not email. Apart from that, you cannot even be sure
that the anti-virus program really doesn't touch your email or any other
whereabouts of the email program if you switch "email scanning" off. It's
a matter of definition and how the scanning works.

Kai
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