Changing Virus notification messages when bad email received

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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How can I change the Virus notification messages when bad email is received?

I particularly want to get rid of the "On Access - Scanner Message’. The problem is that this hangs around at the bottom of my screen for a few seconds and covers the page tags in my Opera browser or application tags, stopping me working.

I am running Windows XP and using Outlook Express as my email client.

Thank you for any help.

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Click Settings (link) in my signature bellow.
You’ll find tweaks for changing the virus warnings, the pop-up number, colors, etc. etc. :wink:

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I believe you simply want to uncheck the option “Show detailed info on performed action” on the “Advanced” page of Internet Mail provider configuration.

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Sorry to be a pain, chaps. But I cannot implement either of the 2 replies.

Tech - In the avast4.ini I am guessing I should change the Showme= Number but I cannot find Showme in the ini file.

Igor - I cannot find - Internet Mail provider configuration.

Possibly this is because I am running Avast 4 Home.

Still need your help.

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[tr][td]Msg Group[/td][td][/td][td] This group of values to change the colors of the info messages were built by Igor and will be supported only in the next build of avast (they are not supported right now (build 4.1.396), so we have to wait for the next program update). All the colors are entered as a number. If you have the color expressed as RGB, each component in the range 0…255, the formula for the color number is color = 65536B + 256G + R. In other words, the color is expressed as a decimal number whose hexadecimal representation is 00BBGGRR. Note: no checking is performed on the entered values, so using them is on your own risk. I believe that the worst that can happen is that you won’t see anything (e.g. when using a black text on a black background), but I warned you. Unfortunatelly, it’s not possible to test the colors anyhow (so you’ll have to rely on your guesses). For the changes in the ini file to take effect, a reboot is required (or at least restart of ashDisp.exe on WinNT/2k/XP). If any of the values is not present in the ini file (which is the default), the default values are used by the pro-gram.[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MaxMessages[/td][td]10[/td][td] Number of lines of the messages.[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]ShowTime[/td][td]4[/td][td]Time (in seconds) of the duration of all the on-access scanner screen messages (email, News, Web Shield, Standard Shield, etc.)([/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]TagDontShowNextTime[/td][td]0[/td][td][/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td][/td][td][/td][td]The values for the messages (e.g. the items displayed when Show detailed info on performed action) are described bellow:[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgTitleBkgColor1[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Initial color of the titlebar background[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgTitleBkgColor2[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Final color of the titlebar background (a gradient is formed: initial color… final color)[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgTitleTextColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Color of the titlebar text[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgInfoBkgColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Color of the message background (simple info message)[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgInfoTextColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Color of the message text (simple info message)[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgHighBkgColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Color of the message background (high priority message)[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgHighTextColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Color of the message text (high priority message)[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]MsgFatalBkgColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Color of the message background (fatal error)[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td][/td][td][/td][td]The values for the Info screens (e.g. the blue square saying that Program update is available) are described bellow:[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]InfoEmergencyTitleBkgColor1[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Initial color of the background for emergency messages[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]InfoEmergencyTextColor[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Text color for emergency messages[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]InfoNormalTitleBkgColor1[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Initial color of the background for normal messages[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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[tr][td]InfoTitleFontSize[/td][td]empty[/td][td]Font size for the Info screens titles[/td][/tr][tr][td]
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There is not a Showme value, just ShowTime.

On the ‘Advanced’ tab of almost each provider setting there is an option like Igor said.
Just left click the ‘a’ blue icon, choose to expand details, choose a provider at left and click on the customize buttom.

No. This is not different into Home or Professional version.