Hi all.
I’m new to Avast, migrating from MSE. So far I find this a winning application, but I have what I think is an issue/bug.
My Mail Shield will show no entries even though I check my inbox regularly (Gmail).
My IM Shield will show hundreds of entries even though I use no IM services.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Jose.
GMail is webmail, it is scanned by Web Shield (what is outside of the protected mail). Don’t worry, GMail is scanned internally by Google also.
About IM, which is the files/folders being scanned? Do you use/have Messenger?
Welcome to the forum Jose_Lisbon. Are you using a POP3 or SMTP client to check your gmail? If you use something like thunderbird, you can find setup information at http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=76915.msg636942#msg636942 . For webmail the email shield is not active.
As far as IM Shield, I don’t even have it installed, since I don’t use IM services either. But I do note it also monitors chat, if you use anything like that. Do you have any programs listed under the expert settings?
Thanks for your answers.
I understand now the Gmail situation.
As to the IM:
I can only see the last file scanned: Temporary Internet Files\content.IE5\GYHGW5C5\columns[1].gif
I also noticed that the 224 files scanned happened in a matter of seconds.
I don’t use Messenger but I have it installed (it doesn’t run at startup).
Under Expert Settings all programs are checked by default but I have none of them (except Messenger).