Thanks for timely responses about Eudora being an accepted program for Avast.

Avast indicates that there are 5 providers total, 4 running. I take this to relate to email programs that are installed (oem) on my computer and that four(!) of them are running at boot up.

The on access scanner indicates that there are providers categorised as Instant messaging, Internet Mail, Outlook exchange, P2P Shield and Standard Shield available. All are versions 4.1-357.

If this list is email programs then I don’t see Eudora included. Is there any way to know for sure if my Eudora email is being scanned. It’s of no value to me to know that Outlook is being scanned as I never use it.

If it is working on Eudora what will happen if it finds a virus? I don’t find Avast to be very intuitive to use and it definitely doesn’t have much instruction on how to use it, so I’m wondering if I’ll be able to figure out what to do if avast does intercept a virus.

Northernguy