Service program update 7.0.1456

[mbailey]

If the outlook add/plug-in isn't working then as far as I'm aware the Mail Shield should take over the monitoring of your emails. Check the Real-Time Shields > Mail Shield, and you should be able to see if they are scanned. You can also check the email headers as avast records scans in the headers also.

Nope afraid not.

The mailshield is showing as 0/0.

Having checked the emails headers the last email which was scanned was on 5th July. Everything after this date hasn't been touched by Avast. :-(

[DavidR]

That is a bit strange, but may be down to the type of email, if in the outlook account settings some of those use SSL (secure encrypted) traffic then they may not be being scanned ?

[mbailey]

That is a bit strange, but may be down to the type of email, if in the outlook account settings some of those use SSL (secure encrypted) traffic then they may not be being scanned ?

Ah, that is it! I removed the SSL and TLS settings in outlook and Avast started working again.

I assume that when the Outlook Addin was working it was able to handle the virus scanning directly inside Outlook, but with out the addin working, then the SSL connection from outlook to the mail server meant Avast wouldn't be able to see the messages.

At least I feel safer now my emails are being checked.

[DavidR]

That's correct the avast outlook plug-in is essentially avast working within outlook (not externally), so it deals with the scans before/after the encryption/decryption process and outlook handles the secure connection.

[Glazierman]

Can you explain to me why this last update doubled the program in the registry and this is the double bell problem?? avast and avast1 in registry and when will this be fixed??

[aljen15]

Hello AVAST! can i have a request???
in the next program update, will you add another feature that will set the Removable Media Scan in automatic???
I think it will help, because some people doesn't know how to scan first the USB Flash Drive before they open it.

Thanks.

[Dch48]

Can you explain to me why this last update doubled the program in the registry and this is the double bell problem?? avast and avast1 in registry and when will this be fixed??

It can't be the cause because it is not doubled in my registry and I'm still getting the double sounds.

[bob3160]

No avast1 in my registry....
Haven't received my VPS update yet this morning.

[true indian]

Can you explain to me why this last update doubled the program in the registry and this is the double bell problem?? avast and avast1 in registry and when will this be fixed??

See here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=101278.msg817123#msg817123

[bob3160]

Single audio notice this morning with the VPS update!

[GreggH]

Single audio notice this morning with the VPS update!

Not here. Double notice (one sound, one sound and dialog) a few minutes ago on Win7 x64 ultimate.

[Gopher John]

Still double voice notification and one popup here with 120727-0 update.

[Dch48]

Same here, still the double sounds. Another thing is that yesterday Avast! started flagging Steam files as being infected with W32 malware-gen. It happened with a Steam file and the main .exe for the game Rage. I had to exclude the entire Steam folder from scanning by the File System Shield to get the game to launch.

[GTX66]

Double here as well, nothing has been fixed.

[George Yves]

Double here as well, nothing has been fixed.

Please show a little patience. The problem should be solved in the new release of the program: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=102154.msg817644#msg817644