Using Avast Premium Security with Outlook

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello Community,

Would like to know why Avast Premium Security does not have some sort of add-in in order to work in conjunction with Outlook 365 (classic)? Despite having the E-Mail Guardian set up to monitor my AOL Mail which is usually checked/read via a web browser only, I mostly use Outlook 365 (classic) app on my Win11 Desktop PC to get my AOL (verizon mail) mail via POP3 but I still get spam/phishing e-mails which I then manually have to move to the junk folder or create a rule in Outlook to automatically delete the offending sender’s mail. But I would have thought that e-mail guardian would look and stop most of these spam mails before I get them in my Outlook inbox (again not Outlook Web, but my desktop Outlook 365 Classic). So it seems to not work as advertised :frowning: So I was thinking there should be some sort of Outlook Add-In for Avast but I do not see any in File>>Options>>Add-Ins or even when I look in “Manage: COM Add-ins”. So is this just not going to work as far as Outlook with Avast Prem Security? You would think there should be some add-in to help block or at least report spam.. Or is anyone aware of some other app that works with Outlook to report or block spam/phishing e-mails? At least with Outlook 365 Classic for my other mail account which is an Outlook Exchange address, I do see a “Report” button in the ribbon, but not for POP mail accounts.

Thanks!

MJ

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Spam filter was removed from Avast some years ago, stating ISP’s spam filtering would be enough for this age.
Outlook plug-ins also was removed, maybe a year ago. The plug-in was for Outlook 2016 (i.e. MS Office suite) so I don’t know it’ll work on latest Outlook 365 classic app.