Set Avast to automaticly delete infected email

[John P]

Hi,

I'm using Outlook 2003

How can I setup avast to automaticly delete infected emails?

The option is checked to "Discard it unconditionally", and to use "Silent Mode"


What else is needed?




Thanks,
John

[kamulko]

You have the right settings in order to delete immediately the infected emails. The risk 
is that some false detection can delete a regular mail from your contacts. False alarm are not excluded.

ADDED: I suggest to save the suspected emails in a folder (you can choose it) and run the manual scanning.

[John P]

The problem is that every time I recieve an email with a virus sirens go off and the Avast thing appears asking me what to do.

is there anyway to fix that?



Thanks,
John

[Lisandro]

The option is checked to "Discard it unconditionally", and to use "Silent Mode"

With Outlook seems to have a problem with the Silent Mode  :'(

With other email clients:
Click on Internet Mail and then on Customize.
Go to Advanced tab and select Silent Mode and the default answer No. This will send the file (email) to Chest.

[kamulko]

Maybe Tech is right, but I have no problems. Have you checked also the heuristic "silent mode"?

[John P]

That's too bad, because I get a lot of infected email and having to click for each one is no good.


Thanks,
John

[kantjer]

Hi John,

Have a look here http://www.heffy.com/spam_virus.htm.

I implemented this, and it works great. For additional support for things like Gmail, Hotmail and many others see: http://forum.poptray.org/viewtopic.php?t=755&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40

The whole implementation as descried also marks Spam, but if you don't need this a see no reason why you can't leave out the K9 part and just use PopTray to delete all infected mail from the server

It is a bit of work to set up but it works.
Hope this helps.