USE OF OUTLOOK FILTERING AND AVAST PROTECTION

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Anyone knows how to keep outlook incoming email filter settings while having avast email scanning active? Everytime I quit from Outlook and restart the program settings move to no automatic filtering. The only way to keep OL settings is deactivating Avast. Any Ideas?
Thanks

[DavidR]

Not entirely sure what it is you are trying to achieve or what part of avast you are deactivating ?

MS Outlook will have an avast plugin, that is what scans incoming and outgoing email from within MS Outlook.

If you don't enable the avast MS Outlook plugin then the Mail Shield would scan email but it wouldn't have the same spam filtering of the plugin within Outlook.

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What I'm trying to achieve is filtering spam email with Outlook (set in high) and scanning for viruses using Avast. The issue is that when I choose high filtering mode in Outlook, while having Avast active (full mode), and then I quit Outlook and go back again, the setting turns into a no filtering mode in Outlook by it self. I know it has to do with Avast plug in. But I want both features working at the same time. Does it clarify anything?

[Eddy]

What Outlook version ?
What exact avast version ?

[DavidR]

As far as I'm aware the avast plugin and any Outlook filtering should work together. That was I guess the point of having the plugin for Outlook, so it works within the email client and not from the outside as in the Mail Shield.

Unfortunately I don't use MS Outlook, so I can't really test.

Have you tried disabling the avast plugin for Outlook ?
Then it would only be the Mail Shield, because that would be working from outside Outlook and may be redirecting mail through its proxy to scan it.

If the problem still occurs, then the most likely cause is the Mail Shield, try disabling that and enable the avast Outlook plugin and test again.