hi
i have tried for several days now , Avast doesnt appear to scan incomming or outgoing mail if you use AOL ,
i have no wish to use Outlook express , nor MSN ,
can it be used with aol or not , i preferr to see the message mail has been scanned
thanks
Is this webbased, pop or imap?
What exact version of Avast?
What OS?
Any other security (or related) software do you have installed?
Do you view your AOHell email through your browser?
If so it is not using the normal email ports 25 and 110 so it won’t be scanned by an email scanner.
General Web based email info which possibly applies to AOHell.
Yahoo/Hotmail are not pop3 email services (unless you pay for the pop3 service), it is web based (so the Internet Mail provider doesn’t directly protect it). Web based email is simply your email being viewed in the same way you browser the internet. The pages (that display your email) are downloaded into your Temporary Internet folder, just like regular web pages and displayed on your browser screen.
The Web Shield and finally Standard Shield will scan your files (as they are downloaded into your Temporary Internet folder) when sensitivity is set to High. You can round this ‘problem’ using 3rd party applications to download the Hotmail messages through the pop3 server (PopHotmail, for instance)
Jinty, please use the search option before asking next time.
How to setup AOL and Avast has already been explained.
One of the threads explaining is can be found HERE