HI,
Just downloaded the free version home 4.8 and need some help.1.When I get email from family/friends will it say at bottom of email CHECKED/SCANNED FOR VIRUSES BY AVAST… AVG did this which I liked?2.How can I get Avast to scan my whole pc once a day when I first turn it on to start automaticly?3.How can I set avast to just delete a virus without asking me if I want to first? Sorry for any dumb questions you’ll be getting from me and I hope it gets easier using avast…AVG seemed simpler to use…I’m kinda lost here
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon. Click Details button.
Choose Internet Mail provider at left. Customize button at right.
On POP3 (inbound) and SMTP (outbound) tabs check for ‘clean notes’.
Scheduling is only available in Professional version.
Well, that’s the way it is, I am afraid; you may call it a limitation of the Home Edition of avast!. In the Professional Edition, you can configure the task to perform automatic actions (or, don’t do anything).
In the Home version, you may check the “Don’t show again” checkbox in the Virus warning dialog - but only after the first virus has been found (because you won’t see the virus dialog until then).
Tech has shown you how to include these clean notes, though I feel they are of little benefit for inbound email. If there is an infected email all hell will break loose with an audible and visual alert, so you will know if an email is infected, consequently the others are clean. However, you never 100% class something as clean and continue to exercise care by not opening attachments or clicking links in unsolicited emails.
Even for emails you send the clean note effectively is a small advert for avast which is good. I don’t believe anything like this in my inbound email from the sender, I don’t trust their AV and it may not be even entered by an AV. It is only text after all and could just as easily be entered by malware to lull the recipient into a false sense of security. Believe nothing but what you do for yourself.
So as you can see there really is little benefit in the insertion of clean notes.
Don’t forget that you will not see the inserted note in the ‘Sent Items’ folder of your mail program, because avast adds the note after the mail leaves the mail program.
Gmail uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections. Avast mail scanner doesn’t support SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections. But take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0 to see how to set up secure email with avast!.
To see if avast! is scanning emails, check one of these points:
Is the avast icon (the special one of email scanning) be shown in the system tray?
Is your email header with the lines X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS XXXXXX-X, XX/XX/2007), Inbound message and X-Antivirus-Status: Clean? (Right click the message, choose Properties and Details)
You mean the blue spinning @ ball that when my mouse hovers over says…avast on access scanner 7 providers total 6 running…if thats the one it’s there yes?I am not a tech and don’t understand about configuring avast with my email it’s confusing .
