You load the AVG software and if you don't pay you select the button to use it for free. Easy.

I went in and told it to stop all of the reporting on the bottom of my incoming and outgoing email. It can scan it, just don't tell me about it. I was seeing emails go back and forth on discussion lists ending up with yards of AVG messages at the bottom. Here is a message I sent to the others on that list about how to turn off the footers:

Did you know you can make AVG stop sending the footers on your email?
-Open AVG (a four-color box on your quick launch bar)
-Click on "e-mail scanner" or the "properties" button.
-Select "configure" button
-On "e-mail scanning" you can leave it to scan mail but not announce it in a footer.
-To remove the footer, uncheck the box to "certify mail" under incoming and/or outgoing mail columns.
-To change the message leave the "certify mail" box checked but click the "details" button at the bottom to find the message text box.
-Click "OK" to exit.

There was a report on the news today about the arrest of some folks in Canada and elsewhere who were trying to attack American computers very recently. It must have been a pretty ham-handed attempt, but I saw evidence of it on my own. I had my modem straight into the computer for a while when I was troubleshooting some router stuff. I had several hits that Kerio caught from a Canadian IP address. Same one my aunt uses in Calgary (her email). I blocked it, but it came through every so often, until I got the router back online. I bet it was them.

SRS