Mail Wizzard

[Lisandro]

Just look at the images in Bob's and my posts, it does come from there (even if the Internet Mail is set to Normal) and the instruction plus image in my reply #25 show how to get rid of it.

I see... living and learning... I've forgot the check the "Attachment check... content-type".
Sorry, my fault.

[Abber]

Hi

It seems Avast DOES work with Live Mail, at least with the email from my ISP as mentioned in a post from "alanrf". I know this because Avast  came up with warning regarding a suspicious email just as I was checking my email a few minutes ago.

Many thanks to all

Abb N

[Lisandro]

Other ways to see if avast! is scanning emails:

1) Is the avast icon (the special one of email scanning) be shown in the system tray?

2) Is your email header with the lines X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS XXXXXX-X, XX/XX/2008), Inbound message and X-Antivirus-Status: Clean? (Right click the message, choose Properties and Details)

3) Are clean notes added at the bottom of the email? (Internet Mail provider settings)

You can test the security of your email system here: http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/

[alanrf]

Tech said:

The heuristic tab of settings does not block .exe file as attachments by default..

Tech was absolutely correct. 

The warning messages generated from avast do not block the attachment. They warn the user and give the user a choice of not sending the message or continuing with the send or, in the case of an inbound message, of receiving the message to the Inbox or deleting it before it is received to the Inbox.

David has given the method of disabling the warning - there is no block to be disabled.

I believe we are all agreed that, in the case of Outlook Express, even if the file is received OE does prevent the user from accessing the attachment in its default setup.
 

[alanrf]

Just an afterthought ... Outlook Express (and also Vista's Windows Mail), while still having a pulse, is on life support only.  The relatively shiny new Microsoft inducement is Windows Live Mail ... so get ready for the (eventual coerced) switch.   

[bob3160]

Windows Live is nothing more than a supped up Outlook Express
with the added feature to easily access your hotmail account.