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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: twynne on January 21, 2005, 08:23:25 PM

Title: Automatic Repair/Delete?
Post by: twynne on January 21, 2005, 08:23:25 PM

Apologies if I'm overlooking the obvious as I'm fairly new to Avast.  I'm running the Home version on a 'server' machine that runs my mail server, lighting control, etc.  In most cases email messages are sent/received by the server with no issues, and Avast appears to scan them all without problems, adding mail headers as appropriate.

Lately I'm getting a large number of messages containing viruses (particularly Netsky) which for some reason cause Avast to put up a dialog on the server asking whether to delete the file.  This dialog unfortunately prevents the server continuing to download mail until I respond (and as the machine isn't monitored this isn't very often!) 

Is there some way to tell Avast to automatically delete without prompting?

Thanks,

Tom

Title: Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
Post by: DukeNukem on January 21, 2005, 08:33:31 PM

Silent mode  :)

Tick silent mode in the internet mail provider and avast will delete all infected mails automatically.

Title: Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
Post by: lee16 on January 21, 2005, 08:44:30 PM

Thats Silent Mode with general answer No (Cancel).  ;)

--lee

Title: Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
Post by: twynne on January 21, 2005, 09:34:24 PM

Thanks guys!  ;D

Can someone explain the difference between 'yes' and 'no' on this dialog?

Cheers,

Tom

Title: Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
Post by: DavidR on January 21, 2005, 10:14:05 PM

Yes allows the scan to continue, but leaves the file intact, no move to chest, no delete.

Title: Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
Post by: igor on January 21, 2005, 10:14:30 PM

"Yes" keeps the virus in the message, "no" moves it to chest.

To define the virus actions in a more comfortable way, you may switch to the Professional version of avast!, of course.