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natlipson

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PREVENTING avast from scanning my Outlook
« on: June 01, 2009, 07:42:36 PM »
Hello all!

How do I PREVENT avast from scanning my Outlook?

I just stopped the Outlook "provider". Did I do the right thing?

Thanks!

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Re: PREVENTING avast from scanning my Outlook
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2009, 08:38:16 PM »
The outlook provider only scan the emails received through Outlook. The resident shield will scan the executable outlook.exe.
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Re: PREVENTING avast from scanning my Outlook
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 12:16:03 AM »
Are you talking about MS Outlook or Outlook Express?
Why do you need to disable avast scanning?
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