I can't find any answers via the AVG Grisoft website on this one, so wondered if any of you could explain what's going on..........

I recently dumped Norton AV and have installed AVG, personal free edition. Everything is fine, but I notice that many - but not all - emails which arrive in my inbox have the little attachment icon (a padlock) next to them. When I open the email there is nothing at all strange about them - and there are no attachments to open..
Can anyone shed light on this...??? Each email I receive has a note on the end saying that AVG has checked the incoming message and it has no virus etc., but every email has that, not just the ones that appear with phantom attachments!

Thanks in advance!

Lulabelle

Hi Lulabelle,

"Outlook Express doesn't show the email certification properly in HTML formated emails.. they show as an attachment. You can configure this if you wish in the Email Scanner properties by removing the checkmark next to both options labeled "Certify mail" if you wish or use the other combination of options allowed to you there."

Open your avg test centre, double click on e-mail scanning, then click on configure, uncheck the box's marked certify mail.Click OK to get out of avg.
I've been having the same problem myself, it looks like it doesn't remove the clip from old messages, i'm waiting for mail to see if it works.

Thanks cat...

Now I know what they are and why they're there, that's fine abd I'm no longer panicing that rogue attachments are arriving!

Lulabelle