Mail Wizard

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Recently I changed my SBC account to SBC Yahoo.

That means my pop3 account changed from X(at)snet.net to X(at)snet.yahoo.com.

I followed the instructions to have Outlook Express download the mail from Yahoo, so to receive the mail I open only Outlook Express.

When the mail is downloaded Avast! does start, as I can tell from the icon appearing near the clock.

However, I have received a number of “returned mail” mailings with attachments which are obviously worms, but Avast! does not react.

To test Avast’s record of the account, I looked for the Mail Wizard, but it is no longer in the Avast! folder under Start/Programs.

Has the Mail Wizard been discontinued by an update? I have the most recent version of the program and the virus patterns.

Thanks for your attention.

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The mail wizzard is only in Windows 9x systems.
On NT based systems the mail is handled tranparantly.

3

Thank you.

Is there any way to determine that the account is correctly identified by Avast!?

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To see if avast! is scanning emails, check one of these points:

  1. Is the avast icon (the special one of email scanning) be shown in the system tray?

  2. Is your email header with the lines X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0XXX-X, XX/XX/2005), Inbound message and X-Antivirus-Status: Clean? (Right click the message, choose Properties and Details)

  3. Are clean notes added at the bottom of the email? (Internet Mail provider settings)

[b]You can test the security of your email system here: http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/[/b]

To see the Standard Shield and other protection:

  1. Is the ‘a’ blue icon swirling?
  2. Right click the icon once and see what are the ‘last scanned files’…
  3. Use eicar virus test.
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Thank you.

I ran the test on the link included, and Avast! and the ISP worked. In fact, the ISP was so thoroughly bombarded that it shut down the email account for a few hours.

A suggestion: wouldn’t it be easier to have the program list the active account(s) somewhere?

Thanks again.

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Maybe… other users won’t want to see this list… specially if they have some ‘hidden’ accounts.
Anyway, if you have XP all new accounts are protected automatically and transparently. If you have 9x or Milllenium, you could check the proper option to do the same, automatically.
I think there isn’t much problem 8)