I just dumped AVG for Avast Home Edition 4.8 and so far am not sorry.
In the help it says there’s a “Mail Protection Wizard” and you get to it by clicking “Start ® Programs ® avast! Antivirus ® Mail Protection Wizard” but I don’t see it.
I use Windows Live Mail but unless I’ve missed it, there’s no mention of it in the help. Is something in my install missing??? Can I assume Avast is protecting it???
Windows Live Mail is Microsoft’s replacement for Outlook Express - new name, nicer interface (matter of opinion), but underneath it all, it’s still Outlook Express…
I guess you’re not familiar with Outlook Express - it’s a very strip down version of Outlook that has the ability to read news in Newsgroups (something that Outlook lacks)
To answer your question, POP3/SMTP, just Like Outlook
I think Windows Live Mail is a Vista thing - Vista’s version of Outlook Express because my other computer has XP and it hasn’t updated Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail…yet!!! (I have another post called “Multiple computers, multiple license keys?” regarding it because I want to dump AVG on it for Avast)
Windows Live Mail is not Vista specific - you can download and install it in earlier operating systems (like XP).
On Vista Windows Live Mail has replaced the dead end Windows Mail that was especially developed for Vista.
If you are running the avast Internet Mail provider then it will automatically scan any email received on the standard (non-secured) POP port 110, mail received on the standard (non-secured) IMAP port 143 and email sent out on the standard (non-secured) port 25.
In Windows Live Mail there is an extra category of email - Hotmail. Hotmail accounts in Windows Live Mail are not accessed by any email method - they are accessed via a proprietary secure access method of Microsoft called DeltaSync. Nobody and no antivirus can scan that connection.
If you access emails or send them via a secured connection port then avast cannot scan those connections and you must not try to make avast do so - it will fail. At present with avast the scanning of email on secured connections requires the assistance of a third party free program called STunnel to manage the secure connections while allowing avast to scan the emails.
In another thread one Vista user reported that Microsoft automatic updates had actually replaced Windows Mail. I find that one unlikely. My wording was imprecise I should have said:
In Vista Windows Live Mail is the upgrade path from the dead end Windows Mail that was especially developed for Vista (and is needed if, for example, you want to access a new free Hotmail account which you cannot do with Windows Mail).
In the earlier operating systems Windows Live mail is the upgrade path from Outlook Express (and is needed if, for example, you want to access a new free Hotmail account which you cannot do with Outlook Express).
Ah but you paid good money to MS for the right use Outlook 2007 so they allow Outlook to access all Hotmail accounts (just like the free Windows Live Mail).
Since I do NOT want to have messages with .exe attachments in my Outlook Express thrown out, I would like to find a way to SHUT off the AVAST filter that does this – Help file says there whould be a “Mail Wizard” that would allow me to set this - but I do not have it. Any suggestions??
Thank you.
Peter S