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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: almostfrugal on January 17, 2006, 10:06:37 AM

Title: avast! does not scan incoming mail on secure connection.
Post by: almostfrugal on January 17, 2006, 10:06:37 AM
I am running Windows XP Professional.  When I set my Outlook Express email account to use a secure connection (SSL) for my incoming mail (POP3) server, the port number is automatically changed from 110 to 995, and avast! no longer automatically scans incoming email.  When I set the POP3 server to not use a secure connection (the port number automatically changes back to 110), then avast! does automatically scan incoming email.  How can I use a secure connection and still get avast! to scan incoming email in Outlook Express?  Thanks for your help.
Title: Re: avast! does not scan incoming mail on secure connection.
Post by: igor on January 17, 2006, 10:11:48 AM
Yes, it is a known fact that the secure connection is not scanned. After all, that's why the encryption is there, right? (so that nobody can read the data - which includes the antivirus, I'm afraid).

It is possible (with the help of some external tools) to make the scanning of secure connections work, but it's not an easy thing: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0
Title: Re: avast! does not scan incoming mail on secure connection.
Post by: DavidR on January 17, 2006, 03:40:38 PM
Some more links on SSL, avast! and STunnel
Gmail and Avast Providers (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14854.msg125401#msg125401)
Redirecting multiple SSL accounts (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12258.0)
Stunnel now comes as an installer which installs Open SSL and Stunnel so now you just have to download the installer version from here http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html
Secure connection with a Spam filter and avast!
How to handle the secure connection with a SPAM filter and avast! (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8775.msg97026#msg97026)