Just jumped ship from AVG to Avast. In regard to the email being stamped virus free, I am not able to afford myself of that feature. I did have it with AVG, and was under the impression that Avast offered it also. Would someone be kind enough to tell me how it is configured? Thanks, Jim.
I feel you only need to stamp outgoing email, you will soon notice if you have an infected email. Click on the avast icon and select the provider you are using for email protection mark as image.
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DavidR:
The screenshot that you displayed is similar to what I see on my computer. When I click on the Avast icon in my system tray I get the “avast! On-Access Scanner” with four choices. The Outlook/Exchange option offers the Resident task settings when clicking Customize, but with a different heading then you show. I do not have the SMTP box, nor the POP or IMAP. I have Scanner, Inbound Mail, Outbound Mail, Signatures, and Virus Storing. All the boxes in the scanner section are checked. Hope I am not making this more complicated then it should be. Thanks, Jim.
Your subject title is ‘Outlook Express’ you should be using the Internet Mail provider if you are in fact using Outlook Express? The image relates to the Internet Mail provider (and the subject title).
The Outlook/Exchange provider is for MS Outlook (not express) or MS Exchange, do you have MS Outlook?
DavidR:
Yes, I am using Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1123. And you have me straightened out. I neglected to scroll to the Internet Mail provider. After doing so, and following your directions I am able to view the “avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean” statement on my email. I thank you for your help and patience. Jim.
Automatically adding a “this-mail-is-clean” type of signature isn’t always a good idea. As i read in the German computer magazine c’t 01/05 such a signature might be mistaken as some kind of warranty. This means if your virus-scanner falsely marks an e-mail as clean and the recipient suffers any damages from contained malware you might be in trouble. That’s because in german case-law he might be able to claim compensation for the damges he suffered. :
Anyway, keep it up everybody!
If it’s so, it’s incredibly stupid.
Anyway, I’d say the bigger problem is that the recipient has no guarantee that it was really an antivirus program that appended the “mail-is-clean” note (neither that the antivirus was working correctly). The same message may be appended to a virus itself to fake the “antivirus scan”, or even by the virus writer who’s trying to spread his code.
So, of course there’s no real guarantee that the appended note is true - it’s just a piece of text at the end of the message…
Igor, do the X-Antivirus headers can be taken this way too?
Aren’t they safe?
Well, yes - I think that with a custom e-mail client, you can add as many headers as you want.
I basically agree with you. I know that an appended note doesn’t prove anything. But as I said those things m i g h t happen. The way I see it the biggest danger is not to have to award damages, because the whole topic is still being discussed in German case-law. But you can avoid becoming a part of that discussion by not using appended notes…
To protect your Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, etc, you need to install “E-mail Provider Protection”.
And ADD/REMOVE Programas, click in avast, remove, after, click to add others functions and select the email protection (no ms exchange)
Starting in Avast 4.5, after instalation the provider, not is necessary configurantions, its already to protect.
Goodbye, and sorry, because i’m Brazilian and my english…bad…
Your English is fine Octaiver.
Interesting that about the German case law. I always felt uneasy about these “this computer is clean” type notices anyhow because there’s no proof that the computer which sent them wasn’t infected in some way with a new virus or that something hadn’t got into the computer without the user’s knowledge. Or that the e-mail hadn’t picked up a virus on its way through the various server routes to get from computer A to computer B.
I not like to send the advises “this mesage is clean, checked by antivirus xxxx”
The recipient obtains informations about your antivirus, and i not like it.
Good Bye!
Octávio-From Brazil
Sorry, i am brazilian and not speak english very well.
Well, I like it if we’re using avast… ;D
Good to see another one from our beloved country 
I Not like because the recipient receives information about your antivirus, and is ready to preparate a atack to you, but Avast protect!