Scanned Messages - inbound

I use Thunderbird [using webmail extension for a yahoo email] and have set up Avast to scan incoming emails. On incoming mail, the icon in the taskbar comes up demonstrating its scanning, but no message is left on the individual email. Is there something i should change in the Avast4.ini file?

I gathered that something like
X-Antivirus: Avast! (VPS 4.7), Inbound message
X-Antivirus: Clean

Should be seen on each email.

thanks

  • Hello jessejazza!
    You can try to do this:
  1. double click on the blue “a” symbol in tray, near the clock
  2. on the left side of the screen choose “Internet Mail”, than “Customize”
  3. in the newly openwd window select “POP” tab, than tap on a checkboxes “scan inbound mail” and “Insert note into clean message”.
    As a result all your inbound emails will contain a signature from avast at the end of message 8)
    Take care. Rostik, aka Avatar2005.

Many thanks. I’d overlooked that. AVG is automatic but Avast seems to leave it blank. I’ve found Avast much better in a number of ways - AVG was very slow for scanning. I’m using Avast on High - it’s faster and more secure.

Hi again jessejazza :D!
Very glad that I could help you 8).
BTW: remember to not to use two AV scanners at a same time. (I assume you have uninstalled AVG before using Avast? ::slight_smile: )
Take care. Rostik, aka Avatar2005

Sorry to say that this has nothing at all to do with the advice you have been given above.

You do not need the “Insert message” box checked to get the mail scanned and the headers you mentioned in your original post inserted.

Neither does this have anything to do with the differences between AVG and avast.

The emails delivered (via localhost) using the Webmail extensions in Thunderbird, FreePops , MrPostman or Hotmail Popper are not, by default, scanned in either avast or in AVG. To get this mail scanned in AVG you need to follow the procedure given in my sticky post in the AVG email forum. Thank goodness that in avast it is a lot easier. To get the mail scanned:

Internet Mail provider > Redirect tab > uncheck the box “Ignore local communication” > OK

“the icon in the taskbar comes up demonstrating its scanning, but no message is left on the individual email.”

I’m not sure where i insinuated that Avast wasn’t scanning - i simply wasn’t sure why a message wasn’t being left. Avatar2005 pointed me in exactly the right direction. I then commented that AVG put it in automatically and it would seem Avast leave it out by default [which is not what their Help file indicates].

…thanks

The avast help file indicates that you have to set this option, not what you said.

[b]Insert note into clean message[/b]. avast! adds a note into infected messages. If you set this option, a note will be added even into clean (virus-free) messages.

This isn’t important what is important is you have got it working. Thought I have to say I don’t believe this achieves very much, I don’t trust any clean note from any AV as they can be faked (and are being faked) by some malware. This to lull the user into a false sense of security.

I think you misunderstood me.

  1. avast and AVG both do automatically scan regular POP connections to real POP mail servers.

  2. neither of them scan the mails received in Thunderbird using the Webmail extensions (because it is a “pretend” server not a real one).

  3. the avast icon appearing in the task bar does not confirm that the mail is being scanned. The existence of the the X- header lines you referenced in your original post is the clear indication that the mail has been scanned.

  4. if you want your Webmail coming into Thunderbird scanned you must follow the instructions I gave you above.

  5. I am sorry avatar did not point you in the right direction at all. The insert message box will do nothing to cause your Webmail to be scanned.

Alan! Ok!, maybe I was’t right this time, & I’m sure that I’m not a mail “guru”, & therefore sorry for the wrong advice I gave to jessejazza, so pease no offence, the only thing I wanted to do is just to give my help to Jessejazza.
Onceagain sorry. ???
Take care.Rostik, aka avatar2005

avatar2005

I meant no criticism of your well meant effort to help - that’s what we are all trying to do here.

It is necessary to point out from time to time that information given is not correct and I was trying to clarify that for jessejazza.

One of the reasons I am stressing the point here is that the method jessejaza is using to retrieve his Yahoo mail (with the aid of the Thunderbird Webmail extension) bypasses the virus scan that would be performed by Yahoo when mail is retrieved via the Web interface. If jessejazza does not follow the instructions I gave then the Yahoo messages will not be scanned by avast with the consequent risk of downloading a virus.

alanrf:
that’s ok, no problem :smiley: