After reading some of the links that Vincent sent, I think I agree with him.
Gmail does email scanning for malware, and then transmits the email to you over a secure connection.
You could disable the secure connection so that Avast can scan it a second time, but I think keeping the secure connection is preferable.
The question really is: will Avast catch something that G Mail missed? Maybe.
But remember, Avast also scans when you go to open something, so again I would say turn off the Avast real time email scanning and let Gmail do it.
After any attachments are downloaded to your computer, Avast will protect you when you go to open it.
rogerX
--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "emailshere" <emailshere@...> wrote:
>
> I started using Avast on the advice of members of this group. I'm liking it
> a lot better than Avira.
>
> Avast has been installed for a couple weeks now, and when I open Outlook, I
> see the Avast box pop up briefly telling me it will scan my email, so I know
> it's been working. Today, however, when I reopened Outlook after it froze
> (very rarely does that; it's version 2002), I got the following warning:
>
> "Avast! has detected a secure connection from your mail program (process
> OUTLOOK.EXE) to the SMTP server 74.125.127.109 (gmail.com). This type of
> connection cannot be checked for viruses. Please disable SSL/TLS in your
> mail client so that the Mail Scanner can scan your mail. The Mail Scanner
> will provide the SSL/TLS security itself."
>
> Should I follow this recommendation?
>
> Thanks, SB
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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