I am new here. I have read the topics on how to set email. The thing is. I don’t have an email wizard or anything else about email on Avast 4.81296 Cannot find email period. It is sooooooo hard to know how to set Avast. I find it very , very difficult and I would need to be a rocket scientist to understand how to set it. There are soo many other things I don’t understand about it. I might have to go back to AVG , at least it was soooo simple to set up. I would use Avira , but unfortunately , it doesn’t have an email scanner.
I don’t think I am protected with Avast as I don’t think it is set up for complete protection because I cannot find anything about the email scan and the tray icon is telling me that there are 7 providers with 6 running. Where is the 7th one ? Why isn’t the 7 rnning as well ? . I am sooo very frustrated right now. I have tried to use Avast several times over the years and still after so many downloads , cannot figure ot how to set this software up. Don’t tell me it is simple because it is not simple to this simpleton… I would so much like to use it , but find it too much over my head.
Which is your operational system?
You don’t have to set nothing with XP and Vista… the scanning is automatic.
Which is your email program?
As reported a lot of times, the message “The provider is waiting on the subsystem to start” (the 7th provider) will be shown there until you open MS Outlook. The plugin will be enabled automatically after that.
First of all, it’s not possible because Gmail/Yahoo use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections. Avast mail scanner doesn’t support SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connections.
If you’re not using an email program, and download attached files, they will be scanned by Standard Shield (and/or WebShield).
Indeed, on version 5, avast should scan the secured connections (SSL). Until there, take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0 to see how to set up secure email with avast!.
Since SSL/TLS e-mail is encrypted and decrypted in the client, external virus scanners (including avast!) can’t read or scan it.
The solution is to pass e-mail in and out un-encrypted from your client (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, …) to a proxy program (Stunnel) that does the actual ssl or tls encryption/decryption of the pop3/smtp e-mail and communicates directly with the ISP server on the appropriate ports. Download here: http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html
The avast ‘a’ icon rotates when email is being scanned and there is also an additional email icon in the system tray (only during scan).
I feel the insertion of a clean note is of little value other than to put in your outbound email to promote avast ;D
I don’t trust email with any such note as some malware actually comes with 'This email have been scanned for viruses by [Insert your AV of choice] and is clean. All this to lull the user into a false sense of security as a lot of people don’t scan their email.
All hell will break loose if avast finds an infection of suspect email, so you will know, however, you can set this up in avast.
Internet Mail - Customize - SMTP or POP3 tabs, Insert note into clean message.
This will only work for non-secured connection + email program being used. Otherwise, the emails won’t be scanned, which is generally will occur with GMail and Yahoo like Jill has.
If avast is used as resident (continuous working in background) you don’t need to run a thorough scanning more than once each two months, for instance.
I am still having problems. Windows Security Center is showing a red X in my tray. Says my antivirus and malware is not up to date. I tell it to update and Advast updates , but the red x is still showing it is not updated. What now ?
You will see the avast ‘a’ icon in the system try rotate when a file is scanned as you use your computer, open programs, browse the web, collect email etc.
Left click on the avast icon, click the Details… >> button if present. Select the Standard Shield and you will see the Last scanned: and Scanned count: fields are constantly updating.
Well the usual culprit in this case is your system date being incorrect - double click on the clock, ensure it is displaying the correct Day Month Year and correct as required.
Well I’m somewhat surprised at that as the Security Center is usually correct when reporting out of date (VPS 7 days or more old) and on occasion it even reports the AV not running when it is.
Try a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Change/Remove button and scroll down to Repair, click next and follow. This may rectify any inconsistency within avast on the VPS version dates, etc.
If not you are going to have to try and update/repair the Vista Security Centre as it isn’t working correctly. Now I have no Idea if some of these work with Vista or more so with the 64bit version of it.
Using Windows Explorer, rename the folder %windir%\System32\Wbem\Repository. (For example, %windir%\System32\Wbem\Repository_bad.). %windir% represents the path to the Windows directory, which is typically C:\Windows.
Switch to Command Prompt window, and type the following and press ENTER after each line: