Author Topic: Automatic Repair/Delete?  (Read 4000 times)

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twynne

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Automatic Repair/Delete?
« on: January 21, 2005, 08:23:25 PM »
Apologies if I'm overlooking the obvious as I'm fairly new to Avast.  I'm running the Home version on a 'server' machine that runs my mail server, lighting control, etc.  In most cases email messages are sent/received by the server with no issues, and Avast appears to scan them all without problems, adding mail headers as appropriate.

Lately I'm getting a large number of messages containing viruses (particularly Netsky) which for some reason cause Avast to put up a dialog on the server asking whether to delete the file.  This dialog unfortunately prevents the server continuing to download mail until I respond (and as the machine isn't monitored this isn't very often!) 

Is there some way to tell Avast to automatically delete without prompting?

Thanks,

Tom

DukeNukem

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Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2005, 08:33:31 PM »
Silent mode  :)

Tick silent mode in the internet mail provider and avast will delete all infected mails automatically.

lee16

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Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2005, 08:44:30 PM »
Thats Silent Mode with general answer No (Cancel).  ;)

--lee
« Last Edit: January 21, 2005, 08:47:25 PM by lee16 »

twynne

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Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2005, 09:34:24 PM »
Thanks guys!  ;D

Can someone explain the difference between 'yes' and 'no' on this dialog?

Cheers,

Tom

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Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2005, 10:14:05 PM »
Yes allows the scan to continue, but leaves the file intact, no move to chest, no delete.
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Re: Automatic Repair/Delete?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2005, 10:14:30 PM »
"Yes" keeps the virus in the message, "no" moves it to chest.

To define the virus actions in a more comfortable way, you may switch to the Professional version of avast!, of course.