Question about Green/Orange/Red System Tray Icon

I prefer not to use email AV protection with any AV product I use.

Is there any way to disable email client protection and still have the ESET icon green?

 

Hello ablatt,

The status will remain yellow if your email client protection is disabled. As you know, your other features of the ESET security product will continue to provide their designed protection. You can find more information within the following Knowledgebase article:

http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2248

Thank you,
Richard

 

Thanks, that explains it.

 

I leave 'Email Protection' enabled, but untick the 3 boxes for Received, Sent and Read Mail in the 'Microsoft Outlook' pane.

I also untick 'Enable email checking' in the POP3 section (ignore if not using POP3, obviously).

This way, your emails shouldn't be scanned but the icon stays green.

 

Yes this is correct. Following these steps will effectily disable email scanning while leaving your ESET icon in a green status.

-Tom

 

This obvously can be done but How do I disable the email protection for my ESET security product? is,

 

Indeed disabling of any of the ESET modules is not recommended. However, you may proceed to do so at your own risk.

Tom

 

I fail to understand why a user would want to diisable email client protection and allow the systray icon to suggest otherwise

If the user was in a Corporate environment where the chance of getting infected by an errant email was insignifcant, I would agree to this.

 

Because a large majority of the people these days use a web based e-mail (G-mail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc..). There is no use for e-mail protection if you are not running an E-mail client on your machine.

 

But what of those that poll Gmail & Hotmail, etc, using the native mail client ? I do.
I think we are chasing our tails here, as ThomasC said, disabling email protection is at user risk and user peril