SillyDog701

[mbroumbe]

Can anyone help me install AVG Antivirus into Netscape 4.79 to monitor email? AVG offers little or no technical support and what help they give comes out in fractured English. Some Examples:

You change in your email client your POP3 and SMTP server to 127.0.0.1, change the SMTP and POP3 ports. Then setup it in AVG Personal email scaner in AVG control center.
After that your emails are scanned before come to your client and before leave your computer.


Please open you AVG Control Center -> select E-mail server -> Properties -> Select Installed plugins -> Personal e-mail scanner -> properties -> servers -> ADD. you have to redirect incoming and outgoing e-mail from your e-mail
client to EMS.

ADD -> POP3 protocol -> connection (pop3 server)-> Fixed host -> port e.g. 5100. ADD -> SMTP protocol -> connection (smtp server) -> Relay host ->port e.g. 5101. Open your e-mail client and change your e-mail accounts for :
smtp server : 127.0.0.1 port 5101
pop server: 127.0.0.1 port 5100

I´m sorry, but the phone support is not available.
You´ll have to change the port numbers in spetial boxes for these numbers in the setup part of the Netscape e-mail client (I´m afraid, I cannot help you with setuping of this program). In the Personal E-mail scanner please, select the "Selected computer" as default and type here the name of your POP3 server (so incoming.verizon.net). In the SMTP server please fill your SMTP server name (so outgoing.verizon.net).
I think it should be OK now.

I don't quite get what they are saying. Please, can anyone help me????

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

[Edward]

Welcome to SillyDog!

In this thread, another member mentioned mentioned AVG is using Port 25 for SMTP (which is the SMTP port).

It reminds me of when I used Norton AntiVirus 2000, which at the time, scanned incoming e-mail, used 127.0.0.1 for the POP3 mail server name (that changed to pop3.norton.antivirus for NAV 2001), and used username/actual.mail.server.name for the login in the e-mail settings. The port settings did not have to be changed.

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[Fulvio]

Can anyone help me install AVG Antivirus into Netscape 4.79 to monitor email?

I have had AVG for centuries, it seems. AVG, like many other antivirus programs will not scan the e-mail, but if kept up-to-date will scan any downloads, including attachment in Netscape.
Since Outlook Express is so prone to virus attacks, there is a plugin for OE, and, also one for Eudora.
Apparently, AVG Professional 7.0 has mail scanning, but I don't know if it includes Netscape. AVG has an excellent updating system, even the free version, and if you open an attachment which has a virus, and it gets through, it would, generally, be your fault.
I have had AVG and McAfee AV on my computer, and I keep only AV active. My final test was when I had a proven virus in an attachment. I did something that I do not recommend. I open an attachment to download in the Quarantine folder of McAfee, and scanned with McAfee. It found nothing. I deleted the file, and emptied trash, I had AVG disabled. Then, I disabled McAfee and enabled AVG. And, I tried the download again, in a safe location. It was a spectacular display, with AVG detecting the virus. I did this in two different occasions. AVG updates were newer, because of the time difference.

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[Edward]

I don't think the port settings would have to be changed at all.

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[humpd]

AVG does check email for viruses. Its default is for IE mail or Outlook Express. In order to get AVG to scan your Netscape mail in a POP3 server, you have to go into the AVG Control center, click on Mail Proxy and then Configure. Set your POP3 server to port 5100 and your SMTP server to port 25. On the right hand side of the screen, you should see a place for "pop3 server and port. Type in USER@COMPUTER and then the port you put in on the screen to the left. It should be the same port number. You will need to go into your NS email account settings and set your server to 127.0.0.1 and your port to 5100. (by the way, you can use port 110 if you want. Just make sure the port is the same in NS account settings as it is for AVG email scan configuration). Once this is set up, load NS and send yourself an email. When you get the email, scroll to the bottom and there should be a statement stating that the email is certified virus free by AVG. You may have to play with the settings a bit. If you are using the free AVG, tech support is not really available. This fall, AVG is coming out with version 7 which should make setting up NS mail scanning a bit easier. You can get tech support if you purchase AVG. This is what I did. Good luck.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (DJGM-i.net)

[Lorraine]

Hi:
I was the one that sent the message about the PORT 25.

That was for my SMTP, outgoing mail.
I have been trying to set up an email account.
Since yesterday, I haven't been able to use Netscape for my email. I have tried every which way.
I believe it is my ISP's problem as they are always having problems, NOT Netscape's

I have never seen the Port 25 before, I've been using the Internet for 7 yrs now. (O.K. I'm a slow learner) I didn't take any courses.

I use McAfee for my AV. Perhaps I mentioned AV short for anti virus. That's all, didn't mean to confuse you.
-Lorraine

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[Fulvio]

AVG does check email for viruses. Its default is for IE mail or Outlook Express. In order to get AVG to scan your Netscape mail in a POP3 server, you have to go into the AVG Control center, click on Mail Proxy and then Configure.

It is time to be more specific. I feel that it is like reading one of those posts which say: My Netscape did this and that. I have the free AVG, and there is no such thing as Mail Proxy. There is a e-mail scanner tab which has nono-specific settings for Microsoft Outlook, and they work for Outlook Express. To my surprise, Eudora can also be scanned, as I found that after I had to reinstall AVG, I gained a couple of buttons in Eudora 5.02.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US) Netscape6/6.1

[humpd]

Fulvio: I was able to get the AVG mail scanner for Netscape mail from a site given me by AVG tech support. It was, at the time, in beta testing and it had to be inserted into the AVG folder. It adds a "mail proxy" tab in the AVG Control Center and I assummed that this anti virus scanner for email other than those associated with IE had been a part of the AVG updates and was now included in the free version. I guess I was wrong about that. Sorry for any confusion. In any event, I am hoping that AVG 7, which will become available in the fall, will include this feature and I hope that it will configure itself automatically. AVG tech support helped me with this when I emailed them and asked whether or not AVG could be configured to scan Netscape Mail. I got a detailed response probably because I paid for the program. I have found that their tech support may respond to questions from non-paying users within a week or so of submitting a tech support request (I WAS a user of the free version) so maybe they will be willing to give some help to those users who want their NS mail scanned. Once again, sorry for any confusion.

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[Fulvio]

Fulvio: I was able to get the AVG mail scanner for Netscape mail from a site given me by AVG tech support. It was, at the time, in beta testing and it had to be inserted into the AVG folder.

That's ok. If anyone was not confused, it is yours truly. You had, previously, given me the information, and even went as far as downloading the stuff.
But, I had some concern. I told them what I was trying to do, but that I had the free version. I never received an answer. They have good software, but I can count on one thing. They never answer, me, at least.
I, personally, feel that mail scanning in Netscape is unnecessary, and possibly dangerous, as witnessed by the problem that Norton had a few years back.
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[humpd]

So far, AVG has worked very well for me. It scans all of my mail and uses few resources unlike some of the other AV's I have used in the past (i.e. Norton, PC-Cillin). I'll keep my fingers crossed that no problems develop. If I remember correctly, I think AVG tech support got back to me because I led them to believe I was interested in purchasing their product if it could only scan NS mail. I DID buy it once I could scan email i, for no other reason, to get tech support.

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[mbroumbe]

It reminds me of when I used Norton AntiVirus 2000, which at the time, scanned incoming e-mail, used 127.0.0.1 for the POP3 mail server name (that changed to pop3.norton.antivirus for NAV 2001), and used username/actual.mail.server.name for the login in the e-mail settings. The port settings did not have to be changed.[/quote]

Do you mean that my user name should be ISP assigned user name@verizon.net?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

[humpd]

Your wrote: Do you mean that my user name should be ISP assigned user name@verizon.net?

Yes, if that is what your ISP as told you.

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[mbroumbe]

I'd like to thank everyone who responded to this request. It took a nasty letter to Grisoft's Czech Republic Headquarters to get the information I needed. I'll publish the steps here for future reference for anyone who would like to install AVG Anti-Virus Version 7 on their computer.

1. After installation, switch to CONTROL CENTER

2. Select Email Scanner

3. Select Personal Email Scanner as your plugin

4. Click on CONFIGURE and check appropriate selections

5. Click OK and Select PROPERTIES

6. On the PROPERTIES Tab browse to the file containing your Netscape 4.79 email files. EDIT your network Connection.

7. On the SERVERS Tab, if any data is shown select MODIFY otherwise Select ADD.

8. If ADD Selected scroll to POP3

9. If MODIFY Selected choose CONNECTION in left pane and enter the name of your email provider, i.e., incoming.verizon.net

10. Remember the PORT NUMBER shown in the box on the right

11. Switch to Netscape/Edit/Preferences/Mail & Newsgroup/Mail servers.

12. Change the name of your server to 127.0.0.1:Port Number from step 10, i.e., 127.0.0.1:5200

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