I just installed avast home andI keep getting a popup for connection time out. avast!:cnnection timeout. Does anybody know how to fix. Yes I am a newbie here.
Please provide a screenshot or the exact details given by avast in the connection timeout message and it will help us to assist you.
the only way i could stop the timeout was to go to internet mail - (one of the providers)-right click on blue ball on the taskbar and click on access protection control then internet mail then advanced …and click on customize and increase time out to 600…after that it NEVER came back for me…that might be just a quick fix unless someone else on the forum can give you more technicial advice… ;D 8) :
drhayden1,
that may well work, in certain instances, but it is very bad advice to someone who might have become infected with an email spambot that could be using the machine to send torrents of unwanted and (by the machine’s owner) unauthorized email messages. Such activity could also be a breach of the user’s terms of service with their ISP.
We will not know unless and until roadkingba provides the details requested.
As a by the way, the folks who design and manage avast have become tired of dealing with the issues caused by the connection timeout messages so they are turning off the timeout by default in the upcoming 4.7 release of avast.
just trying to help but wasn’t trying to steer him wrong…thanks for the more tech. advice…happy easter everyone ;D
drhayden1,
sorry if my response sounded too critical.
I understand from the avast team that the majority of users who have reported this problem to them (outside of this forum) have simply had issues with avast timing out before their email client did and the problem did not represent any real problem - that sounds like that was the case for you.
However, there have been a number of users who have only become aware of an email spambot infection sending out streams of spam email messages because of the avast timeout - unfortunately most of them have had to come to this forum for the timeout message to be interpreted to explain the issue to them.
As a former IT manager in a major enterprise I can understand the desire of the avast team to reduce the drain on their support resources that dealing with erroneous timeouts represented. I hope that the users with real spambot infections will not get overlooked in the process.
And - of course - to you and all who might read this - a very Happy Easter!
thanks for the comeback…hope roadkingba gets his problem worked out…there’s a solution for most everything :o >:( :D…when is the new version of avast! being released?
As you have probably noticed the 4.7 release is in beta testing right now.
While we have not been given a date for the formal release of 4.7 I believe I am correct in saying that all issues so far reported in the beta testing have been dealt with in the beta refreshes. My best guess (and that is all it is) is that you will see the new release being made generally available within a few days.