I should have added that the "tick of the box" was for earlier versions of avast. With the current avast 5 (released early this year) the mail scanning is more integrated.
On Aug 23, 4:13 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: > It always required the tick of one box in avast to cause incoming > Webmail to be scanned and there were many posts about it (quite a few > by me) to be found in their forum. I used avast because it was so > much easier to get Webmail scanned in avast than it was in AVG but for > a couple of years in the older versions of AVG their was a sticky in > their email forum by me explaining how to get Webmail scanned. > > On Aug 23, 3:43 pm, KE4AVB <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tried Avast. I still have the same problems with one exception Avast > > didn't scan my incoming webmail accounts email or at least the notice > > wasn't added nor email scan graph showed any activity. I have re- > > installed AVG; at least it scans my incoming webmail emails. I have > > simply quit using the Hotmail extension for incoming email until a > > time it starts to work again. Outgoing is currently going a regular > > smtp connection as the webmail version is completely useless to for my > > use. > > > Eugene > > > On Aug 23, 8:04 am, Blues Renegade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > SOLUTION: I switched to Avast! (FREE anti-virus for Windows version) > > > years ago because of issues with AVG and Webmail running on Windows. > > > > I've never had these kind of conflicts between Webmail running under > > > Thunderbird for Linux and other Linux applications. > > > > On 8/20/2010 7:24 AM, KE4AVB wrote:> Does anyone else have problems > > > sending email using TB webmail and AVG? > > > > When the email scanner is on the main body of the message is not in > > > > the received email. This is affecting all my Webmail Smtp accounts, I > > > > am unable send anything thru Webmail unless it is sent as an > > > > attachment. I don't know if it is a Webmail problem, an AVG problem or > > > > that Webmail simply doesn't work with the AVG software. My regular TB > > > > smtp's has no problem using the AVG software so at least I can still > > > > send my work off to my suppliers. > > > > > I am also unable to received large emails with attachments thru the > > > > Hotmail extension unless I turn off AVG resident shield. For now I had > > > > to disable the Hotmail Extension because it no longer works. I am just > > > > forwarding all my received Hotmail email thru the AOL extension. This > > > > is being done at the Hotmail site since they now allow me to forward > > > > to an outside account. > > > > > The Webmail author says its a timeout problem on receiving. Strange > > > > that I am unable to receive the emails with AVG on and that I able to > > > > receive the same email thru the AOL and Gmail extensions fine. Hotmail > > > > receives that the same message if I turn off AVG's resident shield. > > > > > Any ideas on how to fix this problem? > > > > > Eugene
