Now, with Thunderbird set to go to the original POP server, I'll have to have someone e-mail me a virus to confirm operation.
So, now about the two non-running Providers, Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange: Avast! says are "waiting for a subsystem to start." Um . . . they are unneeded providers or something?
The subsystems these providers are waiting for are Your E-mail clients - these subsystems are needed for mail scanning - so if You start Thunderbird the Internet Mail provider shoulld change his status. If You for sure don't use Outlook/Exchange then you may stop the Outlook/Exchange Provider.
To check if the mails are scanned no need to wait for a real virus:
- check the headers of received mails, there You should have following lines
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0447-1, 19.11.2004), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
- to check also outbound scanning send yourslef a mail, then the received mail should have also the above lines plus the headers for outbound check
- or go to
http://www.testvirus.org and send yourself a mail with the harmless eicar test pattern
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Peter