when i installed 8.0 i selected personal e-mail setting, set it to notify me of e-mail scan on incoming and outgoing messages, it did state  that the installer detected my default mailer is EITHER not set or not supported by avg. when i checked the avg setting it STATED there are no e-mail plugins installed. never had this problem with 7.5, it always stated with a notification that avg was scanning the email. now the really funny part, when i check e-mails now norton scans them, i have never used norton and those sending me mail dont use norton.what gives? i use at&t yahoo internet service and my e-mail acct. is with them. when i go to the avg control board and check overveiw it states the email scanner is funcitional  and working properly, however checking stats it states no e-mail has been scanned, sorry for being so long but i am TOTALLY lost. thanks Take a look at this thread

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There is no good reason for an email scanning module. It is driven from the marketing folks at AV vendors, not from the technical side of the House.

Your Antivirus software acts as a kernel level file filter. That means that even if you remove the email filter module, the emails are scanned every time they are OPENED. It has proved the case for years under Win9x, ME, XP and now again in Vista, that the introduction of email MODULES to an antivirus product offers no additional protection, but is a serious cause of database corruption in Outlook Express, Outlook and now Windows Mail under Vista.