No reference to X-Antivirus in Properties of outgoing emails

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I use Outlook Express 6 for my home emails, and it receives and sends emails on two accounts.

On incoming emails, the “Properties” for each email shows:

“X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130904-1, 09/04/2013), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean”

However, there’s nothing similar in “Properties” for outgoing emails - no reference to X-Antivirus. Is that a problem?

(For what it’s worth, I just checked “mail.log”, and Avast seems to be checking both incoming and outgoing emails - they are all marked “Clean” in the log. But is it correct that there is no reference to X-Antivirus in the Properties of the outgoing emails themselves?)

Thanks.

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Where are you looking for this properties (don’t say in the email ;D ) information, e.g. what email folder is it in ?

If you are looking in the sent items folder you won’t see anything in that, as the branding isn’t placed in the email until it is being sent, the copy in the sent items folder hasn’t actually been sent.

If you have sent yourself an email and are looking for the information in the inbox email, then the outbound scan info should be present along with the inbound scan info.

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David R: All is OK. I sent a test email to myself, and in its “Properties” is has this:

X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130905-0, 09/05/2013), Outbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

as well as the X-Antivirus incoming message above.

Also, I find “Properties” in each email in File - Properties - Details (and maybe also hit Message Source). File is in the menu in the email itself as it displays in OE6.

Now, in your signature, what means " RequestPolicy/ MailWasher Pro/ DropMyRights/ " ? In other respects, your system and mine are 99% similar, but I am not familiar with these three apps. Please advise.

(If Mailwasher Pro is additional anti-virus for emails, do you really need it if you have Avast? But what are all three?)

Thanks.

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I suspect that you were just looking inside the sent items folder, which isn’t marked as I mentioned. The main thing is that you now know it is working.

If you look at my signature each program, etc. is separated with a / forward slash, so whatever is between two backslashes relates to that program. The NoScript and RequestPolicy are firefox add-ons.

DropMyRights is an XP specific tool which is used to lower the users rights for a program when using a user account with administrative rights. Essentially it prevents any malware that you might encounter from inheriting the user account permissions (admin) the idea is to prevent malware admin rights to do more damage. I use it on all internet facing applications, browsers, email clients, etc.

MailWasher Pro is not an additional antivirus for email, but a paid for anti-spam application.

All of this you can find out using google or a search engine of your choice ;D