OT : Thunderbird / AVG Antivirus - emails deleted - warning!

[Brian Gaff]

To be honest if you install the registry hack then use MSSE its still getting security updates and although some say its not a good anti virus, it has caught most of the nasty ones and without all this false positives and losing the quarantined itemsavg and Avast are so famous for. Brian

[T i m]

That would be handy. Any idea if it offers updates as I found they generally broke any other USB / Portable Lini I've tried?

Ok. I'll generally go for the path of least resistance so probably create it from my Linux box.

As long as it's moderated it should keep all the Linux fanatics suppressed . Those (minority I should add) *insisting* 'I must learn Linux' (and *their way*, to be able to just use it) and not actually realising their offers of 'help' rarely helped (because they had no way of comprehending what 'other people' understood). ;-(

Cheers, T i m

[T i m]

And it's Thunderbird version 0.9 so maybe it's another example of them making things better in the 'old days'. ;-)

It's only 1227 now I've archived 2015 (and 2014 doh).

And that's in my 'ISP email' inbox. In my other I currently have

17,128 and many many sub folders across both key accounts that auto file that would have made that much higher.

When I've archived the main inbox off into it's years, when I get some time I go through it and clear out all the flyers (that aren't already deleted as spam) and for example 2009 contains only 3552 messages. Flicking though them most years seem to contain about 3000 messages for some reason.

Cheers, T i m

[Big Les Wade]

soup posted

OOI, what has the fact that XP is no longer supported got to do with the fact that the system received an infected email, causing the virus checker to delete the inbox file? Might that not equally have happened on a Windows 10 machine?

[Adrian Brentnall]

I couldn't see that option...

...but there's good news! After lots of reading & a fair bit of fiddling, discovered that it was possible to get AVG to give back the file that it'd quarantined, and managed to reinstate the emails into Thunderbird. Seems AGV 'neutralised' the virus threat before it quarantined the entire inbox (guess it was trying to be thorough!)

So - emails back, and AVG swapped for Avast - which is a bit less trigger-happy when it encounters something it doesn't like.

Still might continue along the Puppy linux path, though for this particular machine...

Thanks for all the suggestions A

[Mark]

don?t think so, but I never install updates anyway

well it is a Linux forum ;(

the regulars always seem to expect you have a degree in computer science and have RTFM from cover to cover,

but having said that they seem a friendly helpful bunch of nerds

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[soup]

Yup . That was the point. DON'T change it because it doesn't play nice with your e-mail client/your family didn't use the e-mail client right/your anti-virus played silly buggers. change it because it is not supported .

[Adrian Caspersz]

:) I was going to suggest checking that...

And also the Google IMAP Thunderbird solution. I feel there is no real reason nowadays to be downloading all this email. Let it live in the cloud ...

(but, that's just me... YMMV)

[Adrian Brentnall]

Thanks! Luckily, it worked...

I'm afraid I'm strictly 'old school'

- 'my email - I'd like it stored here on my machine'

A

[T i m]

+1

I think it's one of those 'horses for courses' things. I have both POP / SMTP email on the machine I am generally sitting in front of and IMAP on those devices I uses portably (with no re linking or correlation between them).

I have it on my local machine because then I don't get harangued by any mail-bot telling me 'My inbox is about to explode' or whatever. ;-)

However, I also keep a 'rolling window' of emails (about a months worth) on my ISP's POP server in case I do need to access an email when I'm out and about (webmail).

I also prefer to access any groups by email as that saves having to go to the site, sign in and find how *that* particular system does everything.

Because locally stored email takes up so little space (by today's storage standards especially) I keep much of it as it then becomes an easy to search archive (especially for the motorcycle / 3D printer eGroups where I may not real every eMail at the time).

Cheers, T i m