I just installed avast on my win 98 se computer and i think I have a problem with mails scanning.
Avast 4.7 Home doesn’t seem to scan incoming and outgoing mails.
I tried to send and receive mails with attached “eicar.com” files.
and avast didn’t say anything about them.
I also checked the checkboxes to add an avast footer to my outgoing mails but nothing happens.
This is the second installation I try, i think I answer correctly the questions about mail during installation.
I’m using thunderbird.Can anybody help me ?
Note : When I try to run the downloaded “eicar.com” file, Avast stops it correctly.
Thanks.
First - what e-mail account are you using? Second - did you run the Mail Protection Wizard (Start → Programs → avast! antivirus → Mail Protection Wizard ) of avast! ?
Well the mail protection is fully automatic on NT based systems (WinXP, WinNT, Win2000 …). But on older systems like Win98 you need to do it manual. Thats all. Glad I could help
Has the Wizard changed in more recent versions? It used to be that if you ran it (with mailer shut down, of course) then it did automatically change the port settings in the mailer to localhost.
Plus it “remembered” the original port settings and changed them back if you shut down or removed the email provider.
Not really, Tech. Most systems treat “localhost” and 127.0.0.1 as identical, which they normally are.
I just meant that back when I was running under 98SE, the Wizard automatically changed the mailer’s port settings, you didn’t need to do that manually. And with NT systems (e.g. XP) the “proxy” is of course transparent and no change is made to the mailer.
