I 've got Outlook xp and avast 4.6 home (version 4.6.603). In the on-access scanner’s preferences, I have switched to “Silent Mode” (general answer “no”) in the “Internet Mail” section. In the section “Outlook/Exchange”, I switched on “kill incoming viruses immediately”.
But avast dosn’t kill those infected mails. It just tells me, when it detects an infected mail but it does not delete it.
I suggest you read the help file for the correct settings.
Hi there,
I don't beleive that is correct settings issue. I did test in all silent etc modes, no result. Probably this is a free version feature. If I am wrong, can anybody provide settings required?
Seems like a confusion of the providers.
The “Internet Mail” provider is for Outlook Express (and other non-Outlook clients).
The “Outlook/Exchange” provider is for full MS Outlook. So, you should turn on the “Silent mode” for this provider (it’s on the “Advanced” page).
Sorry, I was answering to the first post, didn’t notice there were 2 posters in this thread.
So, you checked the option called Silent mode (moves infected files to Chest)
and you still got the avast! virus dialog when you received an infected message? Or, did you read a message stored in your mailbox already?
Hi Igor,
Avast displayed me virus dialog even with Silent mode been set both for the Access Scanner and Outlook plugin.
Web shield worked fine, it just displayed me “blue messages” at the screen bottom when I tried to access an infected page. No complains for this service.
I also wanted to change my avast! settings to silent mode (move to chest). But I still get the popup dialog everytime an incoming email has a virus attached. I tried a variety of settings changes, including rebooting with silent mode for every resident service and still it pops-up messages everytime.
I noticed this post is rather old and does not appear to have been resolved. Any update?
In fact this is not a problem: you’re using the Home (free) version.
The Professional version deals with it (automatic actions) without trouble.
Did you browse the avast4.ini file for any other possible tweak for your installation?
See ‘Settings’ in my signature
No tweaks have been done. The only changes made to my configuration have been done via the GUI interfaces.
So what you’re saying is that the Silent Mode option does nothing in the Free edition?
If this is the case, then why give users the option to check it? ???
If a feature is limited to the Professional edition then don’t let users waste time trying to get their software to do something it won’t do. The option should be greyed and disabled for the Free version and the documentation should reflect that the feature is not available.
I’m not saying that you have done but that you could done them now.
No. I’m saying the Silent Mode does exactly this, send the file to Chest if you use the answer ‘No’ by default.
This works for on-access scanning. For on demand, if I’m not wrong, you’ll have the virus alert each time (Home version)
As I say, avast! is not a joke. It does perfectly what it’s projected to do.
The Help file tells this, and we’re not wasting your time, we’re using our time as we, like you, are avast! users 8)
