having mastered email(thanks be to those who showed me the way!) I now turn to newsgroups. None of the messages in newsgroups wot I got show a ‘clean’ message in the header. so I suppose that they have not been checked.
What do I need to do?
Ignoranmus level 4.
If I understand you, your inbound mail is not being checked. Is it?
Which is your OS? Firewall? email application?
I need more information to help you… 
Newsgroups are a whole different “ballgame” in the sense of form of communication media. I suspect activity in one of those would come under the Standard shield, like just about anything else that isn’t protected by a more specific resident provider.
Right, the avast mail filters cannot currently scan newsgroup messages (communication based on a different protocol called NNTP).
We might be adding this feature in one of the upcoming releases though. It’s on our internal todo list.
Vlk
By version 4.5 or will it just be added at some time later?