I realise this may be a Sygate problem, but I am unable to send my e-mail (Thunderbird) when the Sygate Firewall is enabled. It does not seem to like the e-mail scanner. The scanner and Avast has been set be ‘allowed’ within Sygate.
Incoming e-mail is fine.
Works immediately I turn the Sygate firewall off. Windows Firewall is also disabled (but the e-mail works fine when Windoze Firewall is enabled). Just in case that sounds confusing, I don’t have both firewalls enabled at any one time, but would like to stick with Sygate if pozzible.
Anyway I think I may have solved the problem by doing a right click (on Sygate) and deleting all the applications, and starting again. E-mails work OK now, bit of a hiccup when I tried to preview THIS message, but a close and re-start of Sygate solved this as well. Just hope I don’t have to keep pffaffing about with Sygate or it could well end up in the shredder :o
Since it works when Sygate is disabled then I believe that Sygate was blocking ashMaiSv.exe (until you cleared all applications), which requires internet access. You probably inadvertently selected No when Sygate first asked for permission for ashMaiSv.exe to connect.
That is what I though, but the same has now happened again. It would APPEAR that Sygate is blocking ashMaiSv.exe although it is listed as ‘allowed’ in the Sygate setup. ALSO It will block my previewing these posts.
Any more tips … or ditch Sygate and try ZoneAlarm, or battle on with WinXP firewall which seems to have VERY divided opinion.
In fact, it should be, in this case, WebShield and not the mail provider… Can you check into the providers which is the ‘last’ scanned file with WebShield?
I never ever did manage to Sygate to install on my system, it kept hanging after the reboot. Add to that the compromise that is required because Sygate doesn’t cope with local host lookback and it has just been bought by Symantec. I would ditch it, and try Kerio, I’m not sure on the latest version of ZA see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=15862.0. There is absolutely no way I would recommend windows XP’s firewall (it is only better than nothing), you simply aren’t fully protected.
One thing I did forget to mention : and that is that I do connect via an ADSL router so there is a hardware firewall in between the internet and my desktop, but wireless to my laptop. ALSO I am really geting into Linux (both machines have duel boot) and I am now tending to do my online stuff with Linux operating reducing the virus threat to a minimum (so I am told) I might just well ditch Sygate, or even ditch XP ;D ;D ;D ;D Mind you this will make Avast a bit redundant as well (no I will never leave you :-*) I suppose.
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I might just well ditch Sygate, or even ditch XP ;D ;D ;D ;D Mind you this will make Avast a bit redundant as well (no I will never leave you :-*) I suppose.