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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: JSBracher on September 01, 2004, 06:58:24 AM
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newbie alert....
Hello, I'm a relatively new user of avast and now I have a problem.
I've been using Avast for months with no problem. But I was sent some .mht files, and Avast decided they were bad. They weren't, and I need them. They are content for a web site I'm trying to get live asap.
Here is the message:
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Suspicious extension(s) of attachment
* Overview Economy.mht
Content-Type doesn't correspond with attachment's extension
* Overview Economy.mht - message/rfc822
Suspicious extension(s) of attachment
* Economy.mht
Content-Type doesn't correspond with attachment's extension
* Economy.mht - message/rfc822
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The list of sender and recipents follows this.
I can't find what Avast did with those files, nor where to tell it to let them through.
I suspect I'm just missing something, since I'm really tired. So feel free to laugh when you point out the obvious. ;)
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It is just a warning from the e-mail heuristics. It notifies you that such a file can potentially be dangerous.
The action depends on what you selected in the dialog; if you clicked "Continue", the files were sent as usual. If you clicked "Don't send", they were not, of course.
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oops.
It looks like I deleted them without realizing what they were when I was prompted by the dialog.
Definitely need more sleep.