Hi,
Does having Avast! Provider check the Internet mail slow the incoming or outgoing mail? ( Somebody said Avast is getting slow because the program is trying to do too much — I don’t think so! — so I thought I would ask the experts.)
Thank you — 
Ofcourse the mail handling will be slowed down.
See it this way:
You normally give a letter directly to your neighbour. Now you give it to me and I have to give it to your neighbour. That will slow down the delivery process.
Mail scanning works the same. But unless the mails/attachments are real huge, you won’t notice the difference. So don’t worry.
Thank you, Eddy—
Avast! ye naysayers! 
It may be slowed slightly as emails are checked, especially if they have large attachments.
By comparison to some other AVs, avast is blisteringly fast and uses minimal resources. If however their system is short on RAM, CPU processing power, type of OS and is running lots of programs, etc. etc. then adding anything could slow the system.
Without knowing what the Resident Scanner settings are it is impossible to guess the sensitivity of the scan.
If someone is saying avast is getting slower (it doesn’t just get slower) because it is trying to do too much (the avast program hasn’t fundamentally changed to include more functions), they are in control of what they want avast to do - standard shield, email, IM, P2P, and the sensitivity of the scanning, etc. etc.
Don’t take what someone else experiences as gospel, judge by your own experience and what you have done here, ask others who are more likely to be able to accurately judge.
If they feel that it has slowed because avast is trying to do too much, they should post the problem and what avast is doing so we might be able to help.
David
Hi David,
I need to learn how to do the quotes.
This “someone” is a power person, and I have been wishing something could be done about his opinion changing from supporting Avast! to making that statement and now supporting another anti-virus program. But I don’t want to get into Internet politics; it still bugs me, though. Maybe the others are good, but with Avast! updating so frequently, that alone is enough reason to choose it, I think.
Thank you for your input —
This "someone" is a power person, and I have been wishing something could be done about his opinion changing from supporting Avast! to making that statement and now supporting another anti-virus program.Sounds to me another one who need to learn. If he can paint two cars in one hour and he need to paint four. How long will it take him? Exactly. 2 hours. Does that mean he is getting slower? No. He just needs more time because he needs to do a bigger job. ;)
It’s just wrong thinking on that persons site.
At the top right of the post you want to reply to is a button ‘Quote’, click that and it copies the whole of the post into the reply window. If you dont want to quote every thing, just cut the bits out you don’t want to comment on.
HTH David
At the top right of the post you want to reply to is a button ‘Quote’, click that and it copies the whole of the post into the reply window. If you dont want to quote every thing, just cut the bits out you don’t want to comment on.
HTH David
David, it looks like there is something else I need to do to get it in quotes ? ???
The text must begin with {quote}
changing { with [ and } with ]
And ends with:
{/quote}
again, changing { with [ and } with ]
You can highlight the text and click ‘Insert Quote’ button on the post dialog.
Hi Sojourner,
When you’re quoting – especially if you’re trimming the quote – make sure you don’t accidentally delete or change the opening and closing “[ quote]” and “[ /quote]” tags. It looks like this is what you might have done here.
Also keep your reply before the beginning tag or after the closing one, that way there’s no mixup over who said what.
Best,
Mike
(Edit) Looks like Technical beat me to the punch just slightly – what else is new? 
Not on purpose 8) Just trying to help :-[
OK — here goes —
Bingo !!! ;D
That was a good day’s work!
Thank you Dave, Mike, and Technical !
… And as you’ve now seen, you can (and just did) also quote things that already include quotes.
Keep in mind that doesn’t work on all kinds of boards, but it does work quite nicely on the YaBB they use here.
Let’s see – OK, it worked again – This is fun, Mike! 8)
Uh Oh, we are supposed to keep our fun in the Off Topic forum!
Ok people now you can ponce on me but, this should be done in the Off -topic forum.
Otherwise none of these forums will mean anything any more.