Trying to troubleshoot why avast! v4.6 server edition (running on Windows Server 2003 Standard) is causing my ASP/IIS 6 web application to trigger the following error message:
421 concurrent connections limit in avast exceeded
We have several hundred people logged into our HR web application simultaneously, and we send out e-mail reminders, notifications, updates, etc. all day long.
I just installed avast! yesterday, and now several of my e-mail related functions (using Persits ASPMail) stopped working.
Can I disable something somewhere in avast?
I’ve looked through the INI file and the Settings but could not find any obvious e-mail related settings.
Any help, suggestions, links would be greatly appreciated!
I have been up and down that SETTINGS dialog box, clicked every button, but for some reason, there is absolutely nothing that looks like “my signature” or MailScanner.
I have a similar problem on Windows 2003 Standard server with exchange 2003 installed.
After installing the exchange plugin, all mail is stuck in the queues, nothing leaves the organisation. I enabled loggin on the smtp servcie of exchange and found the same error message : “421+concurrent+connections+limit+in+avast+exceeded”.
I allready added an entry in the avast.ini → setting Maxconnections = 0 which would disable limits on connections (something i read in one of these threads).
I also tried adressing the problem fromin the exchange server itself by limiting outgoing smtp conenctions to 20. NO luck so far…
Disabling Avast mail scanner service lets all mail flow out instantly…
It speaks for itself that this is not an option …
Furthermore after a reboot i encouter several log entrys on the exchange server saying …
VSAPI: Avast has not started yet. Will keep waiting…
Unable to start avast! Antivirus service, error 00000433 has occured
On the AMS itself after reboot i get this message…
Cannot connect Server lookup didn’t find any AMS’! socket, WinSock error 0x00000000 has occurred.
I have had good experience with the avast client software and recommend it as much as i can … but with the server version i’ve had nothing but issues, I hope i can get some help cuz this problem is chasing me for the entire week allready, any help would be appreciated.
In short, you MUST disable the “Internet Mail” provider if running on an Exchange server. Again, this should be done AUTOMATICALLY by the Server Deployment Wizard - the little app that started automatically just after you installed avast (and that can be run manually by click the appropriate icon in the avast antivirus group in Start menu).
Well, this sort of makes me think that we should actually programmatically BLOCK the Internet Mail provider if running on Exchange? ???