Avast & Foxmail

[abhi_mittal]

I am using Avast Pro 4.6. When I downloaded mails using Foxmail client from my hotmail and yahoo accounts, the email scanner didnt detect 4 viruses! Foxmail uses a hotmail proxy.

When I ran an on-demand scan, avast detected those 4 viruses and cleaned them.

Do I need to reconfigure my software so that Avast detects such viruses in real-time?
Does Avast support Foxmail's hotmail & yahoo proxy?

Regards,
Abhishek

[rdsu]

It's better to put this answers in the avast! forum (http://forum.avast.com)...

Then try the search option and you will find some info about this:

Ex:
Avast vs foxmail/hotmail (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10369.0)
Avast and Foxmail: help needed! (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=7558.0)

;)

[Arup]

The Avast mail scanner will work with regular mail ports 25 and 110, Hotmail proxy is not actually a POP, therefore the mail plug in cant support it, you can enable scan on close for standard shield option as well as the web shield.

[meneer]

And when on standard ports, it even neatly configures to integrate with an anti spam filter like K9. Very nicely done :)