As we have discussed here in the past AVG Antivirus is an excellent and free Anti Virus program. In fact because of the price (did I mention free!) and the small footprint (AVG doesn’t eat up much system resources and memory) it is one of the most popular AV programs around.
I have read recently (in the Windows Secrets newsletter) that the AVG can make a mess of some emails you receive. You see AVG has an email scanner built in – which is good. It checks emails and attachments for nasties like a virus or trojan when you send and receive an email. Great!
By default though what it also does is to add a little ‘certification’ to the bottom of each email to attest to the fact that it has been scanned. A few years ago this was pretty common practice for AV programs but it is rarely seen today. Here’s an example of what it puts on:
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.0/1556 - Release Date: 7/16/2008 4:56 PM
Frankly I find this pretty annoying but other people may like it, who knows?
Anyway it seems the adding of this text to emails you receive (and maybe send too) can garble the HTML code and mess up the email, even to the point it is unreadable.
But never fear I have a solution. From Windows Secrets:
To disable e-mail certification in AVG, click Tools, Advanced settings, choose E-mail Scanner on the left side of the window, and disable Certify e-mail for incoming messages. The steps are described in the AVG FAQ (scroll down the page to number 1376).
You may also want to disable “certify email for outgoing messages” too.
Please note – this does not turn off virus scanning of emails, it just turns off the last step of putting the certification on the bottom of each message.
So if you find some messages are coming in a little strange or, like me, you don’t want the little note on all your messages then just follow the steps to remove the certification. Easy!
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