Avg antivirus not working properly?

Question

all it says is " email scanner " not active. I update it regularly but problem continues. It started a week ago before that it was completely ok .

Answer 1

Really and truly?  You're not alone.

Do yourself a favor. Forget the others:

Get these two that actually is RELIABLE !!!

AVAST and AD-AWARE.

These FREE tools do an EXCELLENT job.

A.

Avast free Home Edition

Get it here:

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

And please do a "thorough" scan as soon as you get it downloaded. The user interface is simple. Click the left side, and in the top menu that comes up, select thorough scan.

When it finds a culprit it throws up an alarm, then you DELETE the culprit, (do not quaranteen).

Then allow it to run all of the time, and you will be completely protected. It will "automatically" update itself, also for free.

You only need to renew your registration once a year, also free.

Note: I KNOW of several people who have used AVG and Norton and have gotten a virus anyway.

Don't go with Zone Alarm as it is hoggy and conflicting.

I've tried them all, and have had wonderful results with DEPENDABLE AVAST for the last 5 years.

The corporation I work for uses the Pro version, and has never has an incident. Avast is your answer.

B.

Get free Ad-AWARE spy-removal tool from Lavasoft

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-a...

1. Download, install and run this program weekly or more.

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Answer 2

The email scanner was not installed.  Nothing to freak out about.  You can right click on that component and select ignore state or you can uninstall and reinstall.  If you use outlook or outlook express or another computer based email client, then uninstall and reinstall making sure you activate the email client.  If you use webmail only, like yahoo, msn, gmail, etc., then you can simply select to ignore the error and your avg will show in apple pie working order!