Automatic Repair/Delete?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Apologies if I’m overlooking the obvious as I’m fairly new to Avast. I’m running the Home version on a ‘server’ machine that runs my mail server, lighting control, etc. In most cases email messages are sent/received by the server with no issues, and Avast appears to scan them all without problems, adding mail headers as appropriate.

Lately I’m getting a large number of messages containing viruses (particularly Netsky) which for some reason cause Avast to put up a dialog on the server asking whether to delete the file. This dialog unfortunately prevents the server continuing to download mail until I respond (and as the machine isn’t monitored this isn’t very often!)

Is there some way to tell Avast to automatically delete without prompting?

Thanks,

Tom

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Silent mode :slight_smile:

Tick silent mode in the internet mail provider and avast will delete all infected mails automatically.

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Thats Silent Mode with general answer No (Cancel). :wink:

–lee

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Thanks guys! ;D

Can someone explain the difference between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ on this dialog?

Cheers,

Tom

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Yes allows the scan to continue, but leaves the file intact, no move to chest, no delete.

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“Yes” keeps the virus in the message, “no” moves it to chest.

To define the virus actions in a more comfortable way, you may switch to the Professional version of avast!, of course.