what about an option to automatically send suspicious attachments to chest

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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in the email scanner options heuristics it mentions suspicious attachments. what about an option to send those files automatically to chest?

2

I think you are asking the same question as here

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=26259.0

alanrf gives good reasons why not 8)

3

ok i just thought it would be faster then saving the attachment and send to chest and then forwarding to avast. so far iv been just forwarding the email to virus@avast.com but i have found out that’s not the best way.

4

No, just forwarding the email doesn’t work too well. The attachment probably just gets stripped off on the way in.

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I’m not sure, so I’ll make a question to Alwil team:
Won’t the automated actions of Professional version be able to do this?
I mean, do the automated actions will be applied to the Heuristic Modules of Internet Mail provider (and Outlook plugin) or not? In the Professional version, what does the option ‘Silent Mode’ do?

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No, I’m afraid the automated actions do not apply for e-mail heuristics; the silent mode is the only available option here.
That will probably change, but not before avast! 5.