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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: artur72 on January 22, 2006, 07:27:08 PM

Title: Problem with download from news servers
Post by: artur72 on January 22, 2006, 07:27:08 PM

I use Avast 4.6.744
How can I config Avast not to slow down my downloads from news server ???

Title: Re: Problem with download from news servers
Post by: DavidR on January 22, 2006, 08:56:10 PM

What are you downloading, just usenet posts or binary attachments, etc.?

You can disable scanning of content, but that leaves you more vulnerable.

Title: Re: Problem with download from news servers
Post by: artur72 on January 23, 2006, 12:06:24 AM

I downloading binary attachments with NewsBin.
Thanks!!

Title: Re: Problem with download from news servers
Post by: DavidR on January 23, 2006, 12:25:33 AM

Well it is up to you if you scan inbound content, but personaly I would wan't attachments scanned.

Or you could exclude NewsBin from the [MailScanner] section of avast4.ini
[MailScanner]
IgnoreProcess=NewsBin.exe (or whatever the executable is called)

However, as I have said both these options could leave you more vulnerable.

I don't know how newsbin works, but what you may have is double scanning as usenet is imported using newsbin, avast may scan the content then and possibly again as it comes from newsbin to your newsreader (if newsbin is just an interface not a newsreader).

If it is double scanning, ignoring newsbin.exe? and leaving the scan inbound NNTP would still leave you protected. Unfortunately I don't know enough about newsbin to really say for sure.

A forum search for newsbin returns many hits, these are just one:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14655.0