I set my standard shield to high. When I recieved a mail from hotmail it seemed to be added to last scanned. Thank You!!
The High sensitivity of the Standard Shield is scanning the files (email) downloaded and stored in your computer.
But, speaking technically, avast does not protect hotmail accounts because hotmail does not use pop3/smtp protocols to receive/send emails.
For other email accounts choose Internel Mail Provider or, if you use Outlook (not Express) the special plugin (MS Outlook/Exchange).
Hope it helps. Wellcome to forums.
See what David posted elsewhere:
Standard Shield checks your Yahoo/Hotmail in the same way it checks pages, etc. that are downloaded into your temporary Internet folder.
When you view your web based email, you are looking at an internet page that has been downloaded into your temp internet folder and then displayed on your screen. It is not downloaded in the same way as regular pop3 email.
To ensure that yahoo/hotmail (which is likely to have been virus checked at source) receives further protection set your sensitivity to High and scan all created/modified files.