I have been getting a flood of spam with the Win32:Beagle-AQ virus. I’m currently getting about 300 a day. Everytime I receive one of these infected emails I get an alert which is great. However, to receive on of these for 300 emails is a royal nuisance. Is it possible to have Avast delete these attachments automatically without the alert?
You didn’t even mention which is your mail client and that’s very important since avast! has two mail providers… one for OE and some other mail clients, and one for Oulook/Exchange (MS Outlook which is different from Outlook Express - two totaly different clients).
If you use OE, you have to have Internet Mail Provider enabled, and in case you use MS Outlook, you need Outlook/Exchange provider enabled and running.
Either cases you need to open your seetings page, just click once on avast! blue ball icon in system tray, and chose whichever mail provider you use. Click on CUSTOMIZE… and then chose ADVANCED tab. Enable SILENT MODE.
Giving some more info about your system (security programs, configuration etc.) is always useful since it can help us a lot. Help us to help you, that’s our moto here.
Regards
Great! Thanks for your help.
Now, is there anyway to stop this flood of emails? I am litterally getting 300 emails daily in 5 accounts.
One of my systems was infested with the Beagle-AQ virus.
Find yourself a good spam killer. There is a lot of freeware out there and besides they are free, they are also incredibly efficient.
Also, you may consider changing your e-mail address and be more careful next time with your new one (IE. Do not post it everywhere on the internet, newsgroups forums etc. since mail address collecting robots are doing their job pretty fine… what can we do?)
Of course,changing your address would be good just in case if that is not your corporate mail address, where hundreds of your clients already know your address and you think it would be pain in the rear end to go through the process of changing it and informing everyone…
EDIT: about a freeware spam killer, best thing would definitelly be to wait for an answer from Tech since he is real expert in testing those thingies (SpamPal, Spamihilator etc.) 
For sure you need a spam killer.
If you use just one email account, take MailWasher.
If you use more than one, I’ll sugest Spamihilator or SpamPal or K9 (the last two ones I’ve tested very little).
If I were you I’ll try to find into your email client a way to make a rule and block this kind of email (by the subject, or the sender, etc.).
Fell free to ask for more help…