avast! version 4.1 home edition - email question

[medicalstudent9]

hello all

thanks for any help you can give me. just installed avast home 4.1 and have a question about yahoo email. does avast scan yahoo email? if so I dont see any messages like "avast - email clean" or anything on the email and i turned that option "on" in the on access scanner. thanks for any help

 

[techie101]

medstu,

Avast only scans email which uses POP3 and SMTP protocols.
Yahoo mail is webmail and does not use the standard protocols. Avast will not scan them.

Sorry.  

[medicalstudent9]

thats what i thought

thanks a million for your quick answer


 

[Amerk_5]

If you use YahooPOPs to download your Yahoo mail to a mail client such as Outlook or Mozilla Mail you can set up avast to scan incoming & outgoing messages.

All attachments in Yahoo mail are already scanned by Norton before you download them so you're already pretty safe.

[Lisandro]

All attachments in Yahoo mail are already scanned by Norton before you download them so you're already pretty safe.

Are you sure? Isn't it a matter of each ISP, I mean, all yahoo mail are clean regard of the ISP used? Who scans the email?  

[Amerk_5]

If you receive an attachment in your mail you have a link that says "Scan and Download Attachment". The only way to download the attachment is to click that link which scan it.

Here's a link that talks about Yahoo Mail & Virus Protection.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/anti-virus/

[Lisandro]

Thanks Amerk, I thought (wrongly) that you were talking about pop3 email not webmail... For webmail, ok, you're right. Thanks for your time and explanation  

[Amerk_5]

Not a problem Technical. You're welcome.