Avast virus warnings

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I used to use AVG but have switchedand now find Avast so much better apart from one
thing that is really p… me off.

I am using Firefox and Thunderbird for emails but might go back to Outlook Express for some of its features, but I am getting virus warnings for the emails popping up. This is a good feature but not with it popping up every few minutes and I having to deal with it.

Is there anyway this can go on in the background.

Thanks

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Welcome to the forum!

And what warnings do you get? What does it say?

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What would be helpful would be what the virus warning is ?

If you are regularly getting these infected emails, so as to be intrusive and not wanting to be notified about them, perhaps it is time to review your PC security. Rather than treat the symptoms, treat the disease. You can intercept these emails at source (your isp/services mail server) and delete them there, rather than download them.

I use MailWasher Pro, although it is primarily for Spam it is also easy to deal with suspicious emails. There is a free version, but this only works with a single email account. The Pro version works with multiple accounts.

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Avast Virus Warning

Suspicious Message!

There are too many identical e-mails in the appointed time

Sender
Recipient
Subject

Continue or Don’t Sent

This is how the message reads

Thanks

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What that would indicate is that if YOU are not sending e-mails every 10 minutes then you have a spambot on your system

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Can you explain a spambot please.

Thanks

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A spambot is a trojan that takes over your computer and sends out lots of spam e-mails to lots of different people without your knowledge. Now unless you are actually sending out a lot of e-mail in a short time then you probably are infected. This is Avasts way of telling you to check

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You would appear to have a trojan spambot on your system as I assume you aren’t actually sending these emails yourself ?
A spambot in simple terms takes over your system to send spam.

I also assume you don’t have a firewall that provides protection against unauthorised outbound connections, what is your firewall ?

If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it, preferably in safe mode.

  1. Ewido, a.k.a. avg anti-spyware If using winXP. or a-Squared free if using win98/ME.

These are more geared up to trojan detection and disposal.