Zagor, while we are here ... since you and I discussed it recently with email ... the same is true of all the providers in avast! (and any other AV vendor). They work by intercepting the access of browsers, mail clients, Usenet news readers, IM clients ... you name it.
No AV vendor would be in business very long if they just concentrated on supporting certain software products. That's why I smile when I see questions like ... is Thunderbird supported, is Eudora supported, is Opera supported, is Netscape?
The folks at avast! know that all of these products are just repackaging a new GUI around well known access methods. For the most part avast! hasn't got a clue what browser, what mail client, what news client you use.
I was once at a software convention of very senior executives from well known corporations. We were all taken to an expensive magic theatre in Hollywood after an equally expensive executive dinner. Though I tried to avoid it I was the person chosen from the audience to assist the "magician". Throughout the rest of that conference I was amazed at the innocence of all my fellow executives (controlling untold multi-million dollar contracts) about "the magic". I must admit ... I wondered how much they, who really seemed to believe in "magic", really knew about the running of their global enterprises.
As long as the large part of the population believe in the magic ... all is well.
