When I first started using Avast, on my outgoing emails messages, the following would be inserted: “avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean, etc.” and with my incoming emails, the following would be inserted: “avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean, etc.”
NOW, for some reason, these messages are no longer being inserted in my emails.
I’ve gone through the settings 500 times and cannot figure how to get these messages back in my inbound and outbound emails!
I am using Avast Internet Security 7 with Outlook 2007 with gmail & roadrunner accounts. As I said, the outbound and inbound messages worked in the past but no more.
HELP!
This option is greatly depreciated in that it is easy to fake and these fake 'email scanned by XXXX (insert AV of choice) and found to be clean have been used in malicious emails in the past and who trusts that anyway, I certainly don’t.
Why is it needed when if an inbound email is infected avast will alert, brand the email Subject and remove any infected attachment, etc. For outbound email it too would alert if infected/suspicious, etc. the only real benefit is promotion of avast. Who trusts it if the message is from other AVs, so why would they trust it is from avast!.
It really doesn’t bring anything additional in the way of security, potentially the reverse as opening an email could actually initiate a remote attack. So looking inside an email for a clean note could potentially put you at more risk, it certainly isn’t something I would rely on.
As an avast user (who previously used the outbound clean note to promote avast) I believe that the above comments are why avast! took the decision to end this option. Not to mention that in some email clients (Incredimail I believe) this option wasn’t completely compatible.
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For those that really want it - You can do it by modifying the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast[b]EmailShield.ini[/b] (XP location) or C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast[b]EmailShield.ini[/b] (Vista, Win7). Note these folders may be hidden.
Find these values InsertNoteCleanMsgIn=0 and InsertNoteCleanMsgOut=0, InsertNoteInfectedMsgIn=0 now change the =0 to =1 (you only need to do that for the ones that you want to have the Note inserted). Now save the changes, the avast! Self-Defence Module will ask for confirmation, answer Yes.
For those that really want it - You can do it by modifying the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast\EmailShield.ini (XP location) or C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\EmailShield.ini (Vista, Win7). Note these folders may be hidden.
Find these values InsertNoteCleanMsgIn=0 and InsertNoteCleanMsgOut=0, InsertNoteInfectedMsgIn=0 now change the =0 to =
Very helpful, thank you. I do have to say, in contradiction to your explanation as why this feature was removed, that whole point of having anti-virus protection is knowing, and or, having a sense of being secure, be that through the a/v’s performance capability, or letting you know the email received or sent checked secure.
I personally have made the entry changes (some time ago) as laid out by DavidR.
My preference is to have the message inserted, firstly because I have faith/proof that Avast can/does provide for clean/monitoring email traffic and secondly because I believe there is internet edicate involved here where the majority of my communications expect to see this.
If the values (InsertNoteCleanMsgIn=0 and InsertNoteCleanMsgOut=0) aren’t present in the [EmailScanner] section, you will have to create those new lines in rather than simply edit them. But the values would be InsertNoteCleanMsgIn=1 and InsertNoteCleanMsgOut=1.
