For some reason, I am receiving hundreds of emails containing viruses. Unfortunately, avast prompts for every one of these emails.
What do I need to change to have it just move the message to a folder. I have already selected this setting in Outlook options.
thanks
Hi,
I think this feature is only available in avast’s pro version…
What Email provider do you have ?
you might set up filter rules on the mailserver side to move infected messages to a folder which contents are not downloaded to your PC
which viruses/worms do you get ?
Probably you need to address the cause of the problem (receiving thousands of emails with viruses) rather than the symptom (being alerted each time.)
Addressing the symptoms is a bit like taking painkillers for a toothache,instead of visiting the dentist.
So, are all these emails from the same sender? What is being detected as a virus? And what name is assigned to the virus?
You don’t mention what you are using for an email client as whocares asks ?
Unless you are using MS Outlook (not express) then the Outlook/Exchange provider settings are of no use.
I would also suggest taking these out at source rather than be dealing with them one at a time (treating the symptom as Targ57 mentions).
If you are regularly getting these infected emails, so as to be intrusive and not wanting to be notified about them, perhaps it is time to review your PC security. Rather than treat the symptoms, treat the disease. You can intercept these emails at source (your isp/services mail server) and delete them there, rather than download them.
I use MailWasher Pro, although it is primarily for Spam it is also easy to deal with suspicious emails. There is a free version, but this only works with a single email account. The Pro version works with multiple accounts.
Errm… am I missing something here?
Reply #1 on: January 27, 2004
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No, but I was playing the follow my leader game on a new post without checking dates ;D
;D
Wonder what Tarq57’s excuse is
(joking…;))
I have no excuse. :-[
This post appeared when I clicked “read unread posts…”
Didn’t check the date.
No need for an excuse, 'twas a joke 
That’s weird that it would come up when you clicked that ???
I suppose it wasn’t replied to because the OP never answered the questions, as often happens in the forums…:
I probably wouldn’t have noticed it if it wasn’t for the fact that the last reply was from ‘whocares’ and I was under the impression that they were not active here anymore (before my time here ;))
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Perhaps whocares edited their post.
It happens on occasion, I have seen it a few times, fortunately I noticed it was an old topic.
Corrected my post when I noticed I had mistakenly set the quote as a url address rather than a quote.