I’d like you to introduce a nice enhancement in the Avast GUI.
While downloading mail, if a virus or something else is found, Avast opens a form and beeps. Well, in that form with the usual buttons, I’d like to find a “Choose default action” button.
I mean, when a visurs is found, I don’t like to confirm everytime what Avast should do and my default action would be QUARANTINE IT. So clicking that button I would like to set it forever.
Same story when a “strange subject” is found. My default action is to ALLOW IT or CONTINUE RECEIVING IT.
And so on.
Hope you may think implementing it or, if some kind of those options are somewhere hidden… please let me know where to set them.
Full support for automated actions is available in the Professional version of avast!.
In the Home version, you can set so called “silent mode” in the configuration of the particular resident provider (such as the mail scanner) - which does basically what you want.
Infected files can be quarantined since your system knows exactly how to handle files.
There is no standard (anywhere) for the handling of an email. Emails have no existence except as part of an email database. Almost every mail client has a different database from every other.
So, if the email was quarantined there is nothing to display it and absolutely no way avast can return it to the hundreds of different mail clients.
So, the choice you have it to say that you want avast to continue and allow the potentially infected email into your email client or to delete the email. If you select a default of delete then you may well lose an email that it a false positive.
The mail scanner is going to tell you that there is a problem with an email and let you decide what to do; it does not break down into finer levels to allow you to set different defaults for the various conditions the mail scanner could detect.