Avast home and e-mails

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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This has probably been asked quite a lot, and i have read the posts concerning e-mails, BUT i cannot get avast to scan my e-mails (Thunderbird).

I tried to setup the scan manually, i.e. setting the servers (pop3) (smtp) to 127.0.0.1 and putting this in the username boxes. "username#my isps pop3 and username#my isps smtp settings.

but when i go to get mail i get a connection refused error. i have set the settings in the on-access protection control to scan both pop and smtp and to insert notes.

I have just swapped from AVG to Avast, So i thought that the e-mail part of the Ant-Virus would be the same or very close to it.

any help in solving this would be appreciated.

cheers
linuts

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As an afterthought to my post above, after read a few posts on e-mail a lot of replies say to use the e-mail wizard at "start/programs/avast/ but i dont have a wizard installed, (well i cant find one ;D)

using Avast 4 home build jul2005 (4.6.691)
Xtreme toolkit Ver 1.9.4.0
VPS file 0543-0

WinXP pro
Thunderbird
Firefox
Opera 8.0
outlook express

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Hello and welcome :slight_smile:

Mail Protection Wizard is not for WinXP, it’s only for Win95,98 and ME, that’s way you don’t have it :wink:
In WinXP you don’t have to do any special settings, for email clients. avast! 4.6 features a method of email protection that is very easy for the user - it works completely automatically. :wink:
So you don’t have to have any troubles in setting it.
What e-mail account do you use? ( for example gmail.com , hotmail.com … )
Do you use any SSL/TLS connection to get your e-mail ?

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Thanks for the reply,

i just use Thunderbird and my isp’s standard e-mail (pop3) (smtp) Is there a way of checking if the e-mail is being scanned ? as i dont see the blue icon in the tray spinning when i recieve any e-mail. ( i reset the the e-mail settings back to default)

cheers
linuts

Edit: please ignore this post, The e-mail scanner is working, it was my stupidity, i had not reset the ports for my pop3 or smtp. :-[

Thank you once again.

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Well as far as I know the “a” icon in the system tray won’t spin when the mails are scanned. There is special icon for e-mail scanning, which is shown everytime when avast! scans your mail. You can enable this tray icon from Resident Protection settings> Internet Mail > Advanced . :wink: