You probably already know that AVG Free by Grisoft is an awesome antivirus application. Coupled with Windows Firewall, AVG provides your computer with decent security all for the pretty price of … nothing!

I have however noticed a few people are having problems with the email scanner in Outlook Express adding an attachment to every message regardless of whether an attachment actually exists. This can be extremely frustrating when you are trying to quickly scan through old emails to find an attachment from somebody. This is how you can fix it if this happening to you:

1. In the AVG Control Center select “E-mail Scanner”
2. Click on “Properties”
AVG Email Scanner Screenshot 1
3. Click on “Configure” Button
4. Under Email Scanning, for both incoming and outgoing email, check the boxes labeled “With attachments only”

AVG Email Scanner Screenshot 2

5. Press OK to all windows and close AVG Control Center

AVG will now only scan emails that contain attachments, which means it won’t add scan result attachments to every email!

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