Hi,
It seems virus in attachement is detected via POP3 mail scanner.
But, the attachemt is not deleted.
Is it normal reaction?
Environment
Windows 98SE Japanese
Outlook express 6.00.2800.1106
No other antivirus detector installed
Thank you
You should see a virus warning to decide what to do (in Home version).
Which is the exactly message you’re seeing? I’m asking because some of them come from the Heuristic scanner of mail and they’re heuristic and not a ‘virus detection’ in all cases.
The only automation available in Home version is Silent Mode:
Click on Internet Mail and then on Customize.
Go to Advanced tab and select Silent Mode and the default answer No. This will send the file (email) to Chest.
But take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=28088.msg229736#msg229736
Do the same for the and Outlook/Exchange plugin.
The answer Yes in Silent Mode keeps the virus in the file or into the message (attach) and continue the scanning. You can’t configure ‘delete the infected file’ in the Home version.
Dear Tech,
Thank you for reply.
Well, I have tried again but it there was no choice for the action.
When I retrieved message from server, the yellow pop up only said virus were found.
Then, the mail has been retrieved into my mailbox.
Probably, Japanese language is too long for warning and the pop up can not show full message? But I am not sure.
The log shows “Sign of “EICAR Test-NOT virus” has been found in…”
I understood how to switch to the silent mode.
Thank you,
But with the attachment or without it?
This is not the case. The windows will be shown (with or without errors in it).
The mail was with attachment.
It was delivered into my mail box directly.
Other than yellow popup, no window was shown.
The reason why I have tested the detection, speed of retrival of mails became very fast compare to the past.
Did you make major revision on the engine?
Sorry for non-English language.
But I would like to show the text in the mail.
avast! Antivirus： 受信 メッセージは「感染」しました：
\test.zip#4011718126\test.txt (EICAR Test-NOT virus!!) は（御注意ください!!!） 無傷のままメッセージに残りました。
ウィルス・データベース (VPS)： 000775-0, 2007/09/16
検査日時： 07/09/17 13:15:13
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com
I’ve done nothing… I’m an user like you, not from Alwil team.
But, anyway, I think there wasn’t an engine rebuild and it’s the same as the last update (at least for emails).
Is the file tested test.zip (attached) and inside of it there is test.txt? avast should detect the file .exe and .com inside of the archive file. Can you test?