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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: testy on September 13, 2004, 04:36:43 AM

Title: Dumb Question?
Post by: testy on September 13, 2004, 04:36:43 AM

Can Avast scan e-mail for accounts like Hotmail? Or does the Standard Shield catch those viruses?  ???

Title: Re:Dumb Question?
Post by: Negeltu on September 13, 2004, 04:41:04 AM

The Standard Shield  scans those types of email accounts.

Title: Re:Dumb Question?
Post by: Eddy on September 13, 2004, 12:22:47 PM

Hotmail is webbased. Avast as well as all other av applications needs a pop/smtp/imap mail address before it can protect mail. So it does not scan/protect hotmail.

However, when you safe a message/attachment to your local disk, Avast's on-access scanner will scan it since you are accessing a file.

Title: Re:Dumb Question?
Post by: RejZoR on September 13, 2004, 01:05:42 PM

Well in fact it does. avast! checks all cached files and all files (attachements) that you upload or download. Also Hotmail has integrated McAfee scanner,so you have a dual layer antivirus protection.

Title: Re:Dumb Question?
Post by: DavidR on September 13, 2004, 06:44:31 PM

Web based email accounts are no differen't to browsing regular web pages, the content is downloaded into your browser cache (where as RejZor said they are scanned by the on-access scanner) and are then displayed on your monitor.