Re: Ask EU: wireless connection

While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard Joe Kerr
<Joe_Kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> say

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:18:23 GMT, spambin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony
Gardner) wrote:

While spitting out some home-made cheese, I heard Jo Lonergan
<jolonergan@xxxxxxxxxxx> say


Thanks, I've just taken this excellent advice, but I have a problem.
If I leave the AVG Mail Scanner on, I can't access any POP mail
servers, as they all time out. Accessing certain web sites will also
reliably cause Firefox to give up the ghost without warning
(www.jigzone.com for example). I've no idea why this happens, but when
I turn the scanner off [1] it stops happening.

But now that I've turned off admin privilege for the identity I
usually use, I can't turn the Mail Scanner off without going into
Admin. Is there any way of getting round this?

Cor, stone me, Guv. That's a right puzzler, and no mistake :-)

I'm puzzled, for two reasons. First, I use AVG Mail Scanner, with a
POP3 mail server, and I've never had a timeout problem. Secondly, I
have just gone into AVG Control Centre from my normal login-identity,
which does *not* have administrative privilege, and told AVG to turn
mail scanning off - and it apparently did so. At least, it didn't
complain about the command. So, I don't know what's happening on your
machine.


Could this difference be explained by Jo having installed AVG from the
admin id while Tony has installed it from the personal id? If that does
explain it, is it what has happened?

Any software installation requires admin privileges, so the
installation programme has to be invoked within the context of a
system admin account.

Having said that, it can be done in two ways:

a) Login to a non-privileged account; download and save the
installation program and then invoke it using the "run as" facility.

b) Login to a system admin account; download the installation
programme and run it.

I suppose using one approach rather than the other *may* make a
difference, although I'd be surprised if it did.

It's so long since I installed AVG that I can't remember which
approach I used.




Tony Gardner
N.B. Return E-mail address is spamtrapped.
Replace "spambin" with "tony" and "nospam" with "gardner"
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