turned off email checking, stills asks about infected attachments

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Using free version on Windows XP. Since I started getting hit with the Swen virus I found that Avast asks me about each infected email and there’s no way in the free version to setup an automatic delection.

So I turned off scanning of incoming email figuring that the resident scan should catch any infected attachment if and when I try to run it. But now I get a different popup about a suspicious file for each infected attachment. Why? And can this notification be turned off in the free version?

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Hi,

  • automatic actions/deletion is imho only possible in the avast-pro-version

  • if you check emails by the resident shield, be sure not to accidently delete your whole inbox !!

  • what email-programm do you use, and in what files
    exactly does avast detect a virus when downloading/viewing infected mails ?

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I’m using Mozilla 1.4 for mail. It’s detecting the virus attachment, usually (maybe always) because the extension is wrong somehow.