avast!4.5.523 Blocks Hotmail Popper and YahooPOPs

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi, gurus,

After avast! was upgrade to 4.5.523, I have not been able to check email via Hotmail Popper and YahooPOPs unless I disable the Internet Mail on access protection. On the other hand, I can not find relevant configuration to change the setting. Hints are appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Are you talking about Thunderbird here (email client), i configerd mine up today using hotmail popper for both my yahoo mail and Hotmail, i can receive both fine.

What are you configerations your using in your mail client?

Thunderbird 0.9
Avast 4.5.523
XP Home

–lee

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Thanks for all the replies and sorry for my somewhat late response.

I have been trying to reproduce the problem by re-enabling the Internet Mail protection. Unfortuantely(or fourtunately) the problem disappeared and for the last 2 days, I have not encountered any error again. It’s a pity though I had not recorded the alarm dialogue previously but I will keep an eye on it.

BTW, I’m still using Mozilla 1.7.3 at home though I have convert to Firefox and Thunderbird in my work PC. And the version of avast! till yesterday is still .523.

Thanks.

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Do a manual program update the latest version is 4.5.546

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Serin,

Yes, an update to 546 should correct your problems with configuration which were prevalent with Thunderbird and a few other email clients on the SMTP side.

In addition, 546 corrected problems with Win9x systems constantly rebooting.

It was a valuable and important update.

Good luck