The subsystems these providers are waiting for are Your E-mail clients - these subsystems are needed for mail scanning - so if You start Thunderbird the Internet Mail provider shoulld change his status. If You for sure don’t use Outlook/Exchange then you may stop the Outlook/Exchange Provider.

To check if the mails are scanned no need to wait for a real virus:

  • check the headers of received mails, there You should have following lines
    X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0447-1, 19.11.2004), Inbound message
    X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
  • to check also outbound scanning send yourslef a mail, then the received mail should have also the above lines plus the headers for outbound check
  • or go to http://www.testvirus.org and send yourself a mail with the harmless eicar test pattern
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    Peter