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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: deffexor on October 10, 2005, 09:27:26 PM
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^^^^ What's this icon in my system tray? (magnified 300% for clarity...)
I deduced that it is clearly part of Avast because when I kill the "ashMaiSv.exe" process, the icon disappears. This leads me to beleive that it is part of the "Internet Mail" provider module. When I hover my mouse over the icon, it displays:
unknown.ord.scnet.net, unknown.ord.scnet.net, unknown.ord.sc...
I'm not familiar with this host/domain.
Right and left-clicking on this icon appears to do nothing. Is it supposed to do something?
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That's avast! mail scanner at work it means you email is being scanned...
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This icon only appears when sending or recieving email and otherwise will not display on the systray. ;)
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What if it is always there?
I have mostly POP3 email accounts, but I also have 1 IMAP connection. The icon doesn't disappear when I close my mail client (Thunderbird).
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What if it is always there?
Do you have other application for emails? I mean, a pop notifier, a spam killer?
Are you using MS Outlook to download IMAP accounts?
If you use TCPView (www.sysinternals.com), do not show unconnected endpoints (on Options menu) is there any connection using ashmaisv.exe ?
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Ah, that might explain it. I use PopFile to do my spam filtering. As soon as I kill Popfile, the Avast Mail Scanner icon disappears.
Thanks for the help!
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As soon as I kill Popfile, the Avast Mail Scanner icon disappears.
This shouldn't happen if Popfile stops checking after a timeout... Does it have this feature, a timeout?
Sometimes the pop checker application does not 'release' the connection and avast! stays there, running...