I am a new user of Avast (Pro) on an XP Home system. Everything works fine. I am curious about something I observe. When I allow email scanning I have noticeably fewer spams being downloaded compared to the number I see when I disable the scanning of incoming & outgoing emails. Does Avast actually delete some emails when scanning is activated? I have not found anything said about this in the help files. If it does, where are they deleted? On my ISP’s mail server or downloaded to my machine & then deleted? Not a problem, but I like to understand what is going on!
Unless you enabled the silent mode for the e-mail scanner, avast! certainly doesn’t delete anything on background. The e-mail is deleted only when a virus is detected (and reported as such) and you chose “Delete” as the action to perform. (Even in that case, only the infected object, usually attachment, is deleted - not the whole message.)
For silent mode, the actions might be performed automatically, but the rest I said still applies.
Thanks Igor. Silent mode is not active. And there were no warnings of virus detection while I had the scanning activated. Must just be a statistical fluctuation.
Certainly looks that way as avast doesn’t filter spam, inbound. If the Internet mail provider is set to High, it could theoretically detect outbound spam (multiple identical emails in a period of time), alerting you a possible undetected trojan spam-bot on your system.
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