disable anti-spam

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I want to use the avast! firewall but not the anti-spam feature.

Is there a right way to turn it off?

If I just click the stop button, my tray icon changes to a warning sign and a tooltip tells me my computer is not protected. If something really goes wrong, I won’t know by the icon because it will always look like that as long as anti-spam is off.

Thanks for any help!

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Baugmo

2

Uninstall avast! then proceed to reboot.

Now run avast! installer. Upon installation, select Custom then click Next. Uncheck the component you do not want then proceed to the next prompts.

3

Disable the setting for it (see screenshot) or go to add/remove programs, choose avast and then change and uninstall antispam at all.

4

No need to uninstall… you can remove it with the installer.

5

Perfect! Thanks for the quick replies.

I went to “Programs and Features” (like Add/Remove Programs in XP) and chose “Change” instead of “Uninstall”. It was not necessary to uninstall and start over.

ETA: Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t think the screenshot above is quite relevant to the problem at hand. Even if the status bar settings affect the tray icon also, I don’t see anything about the anti-spam feature.

6

Edited and deleted :-[

Greetz, Red.

7

Nope. It’s from AIS. But I have not installed Antispam from the beginning.
8)

8

Yeah, I saw it too late :-[

Greetz, Red.

9

Ah! If you do have the module installed (I reinstalled it to see) you can disable it with the stop button in the anti-spam tab, and then in the settings dialog under the “Status Bar” tab, you can uncheck “Antispam” and your tray icon will be unperturbed.

I clumsily attach a screengrab png.

Thanks again!

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Baugmo

ETA: uploaded the right screen grab