I have a small program (MailW@tch) that runs in the background on my computer and periodically goes out to see if I have any new mail. It does not download any attachments and does not try to interpret or execute Javascript in any way, so even if a message contained 500 viruses, my computer would be perfectly safe.
Since upgrading to version 4.5, every transaction MailW@tch makes with any POP3 account (and I have several) is always scanned, causing a performance hit on my computer and popping up the progress window (which I have enabled since normally, I like to see it). This is pointless since there's no way I could possibly be infected by using MailW@tch.
Is there some way to tell Avast 4.5 that POP3 transactions by MailW@tch (or any other specific application) should be completely ignored? I don't want to shut down the Internet Mail provider completely, since I want the protection when using a more full-featured client to actually read the mail. I just want it to ignore what MailW@tch does.