This is my first post here, and first I would like to say a big THANK YOU to the creators of this program.
Here is my problem : On my computer with W98SE, I have Avast since a lot of time.
A few days ago the last version 4.6.603 was installed.
With this version it is possible to scan news messages on port 119.
But that’s a problem for me because I get a conflict with another program (yProxy) wich also uses port 119 on localhost. And depending on which program starts first (Avast or yProxy) I have a windows socket error (10048) in yProxy or Avast.
So I went into the Avast program settings (have it in french so I don’t know the exact syntax in english) to disable the news scanning in the mail scanner (empty checkboxes in “analysing incoming news” and “analysing outgoing news”)
But even in this case, it seems that ashmaisv.exe is still scanning port 119, as reported by my firewall (Kerio 2.15)
So my question : is it possible to force ashmaisv.exe to only scan ports 25 and 110 and NOT port 119 ??
I have also port 143 scanned, I think it’s for IMAP ? But IMAP scanning is also disabled in Avast.
When you first ran the Mail Protection Wizard, it should have detected that the port 119 is already in use (if yProxy was running ?) and choose another port for itself.
You can also change the port manually - choose PORT and insert such a line to file avast4.ini under [MailScanner]:
NntpListen=127.0.0.1:PORT
If you want your news to be scanned, you need to modify the account settings (the wizard does it only for Outlook Express):
NNTP server: 127.0.0.1
NNTP port: the value from NntpListen
username: #SERVER:PORT
where SERVER and PORT are the original values (this enables you the create a ‘chain’ with your proxy).
If you want to disable the listeners, insert these lines to file avast4.ini under [MailScanner]:
StartNntp=0
StartImap=0
(It is not integrated with the GUI checkbox like in Windows NT/2000/XP.)