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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Brenda52411 on October 02, 2012, 09:38:26 PM
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I keep receiving invitations from LinkedIn. Someone suggested that I add invitations@linkedin.com to my blocked senders list in Avast. I have the free version. I'm not seeing anywhere in Avast where I can block a sender.
Am I overlooking the ability to block specific email addresses?
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You don't say what avast version you have ?
The avast Internet Security version has an anti-spam module and I guess you should be able to do that in that module.
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I am sorry I didn't give enough information. I am using the free version of Avast antivirus.
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there is usually a block / filter function in your mail client
you create a rule where all mail from address@eksample.com to be sendt to spam or deleted folder
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So Avast (free version) / virus protection has no ability to filter out specific email addresses? I was hoping to do it within Avast so it didn't even hit my email client.
Brenda
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That is the problem avast is an anti-virus not an email client or anti-spam (unless running avast Internet Security). So unless the email contains a virus avast doesn't filter emails, just scans and alerts to infection if present.
No idea what your email program is, but that should have some rudimentary email blocking/anti-spam as Pondus mentioned.
I use MailWasher Pro (paid option) as my anti-spam, that deals with spam and any other blocking, etc. deleting flagged emails at server level.