A question that maybe someone can answer.
Whenever I do a hover over the avast "blue light" all I ever see is a server name and never an IP address, even though for some of my mail servers I use a psuedonym for localhost (set up in the hosts file) avast always shows that as "localhost".
I see a number of users here reporting IP addresses showing up when they hover over the "blue light". What makes avast display differently?
Sorry, I did not mean to highjack this thread but it is slightly relevant while we wait to hear back from aleph.
The different thing could be easily because those users are using Windows 98/96/SE/ME. If you remember in their settings instead of those names of pop3 and smtp pserver names, it says 127.0.0.1
Of course avast! performed those changes to be able to intercept those mails, therefore check them before they do any harm (of course if some of those mails/attachments are of malicious nature)
I believe that's the number he always see.
As I already mentioned before, lack of information from his side will keep us wondering... why people never post some basic information about their systems prior asking those questions ? If we have enough time to spend helping them (again, for free), why don't they take some time to help us ? If they help us a bit in the beginning, then we can help them much more and much faster... until then, I guess it's his Windows 98/ME and 127.0.0.1