antivirus: avast!

avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed for home usage.

Note:

These instructions are for the current v4.5 version of Avast! and NOT the old v4 version.

If you are running Windows 95/98, you cannot use the new transparent mode of Avast! v4.5. You will have to setup your email program, as per Avast! v4 instructions.

Avast! Setup

SpamPal can either be configured to run in transparent or non-transparent mode.

In non-transparent mode, the user has to reconfigure their email program to use it. This often causes problems. In transparent mode, the user doesn't have to reconfigure their email program to use it, just install SpamPal and it'll filter your mail automatically!

Changes to the lastest version of Avast! and SpamPal, which now use transparent proxies for their email setup, mean that no configuration is required on your email program, in order to have both anti-spam and anti-virus protection.

Note 2: Avast! v4.1 users only - setup modifications
If you had the old style setup, like the screen below, you'll need to change change the username and server name settings on your email program in order to use AVG's new transparent Automatic mode If you are using the transparent proxy mode of SpamPal then reset both your username and your pop3 server name to what it was before you tried to use SpamPal and Avast! (Ie. there should be no # sign or @127.0.0.1 in the username.) just to point to SpamPal (if you aren't using the transparent proxy mode of SpamPal), If you are using the non-transparent proxy mode of SpamPal, you basically just replace the # sign with a @ sign and then remove the @127.0.0.1 in the username of your email program, whch you can see, in the example before and after screens below: For more details about this process, look at the link here
Before	After

All you need to do now, is check your email and all your emails will be filtered by SpamPal and Avast!.

Note 3: Firewall

Your firewall may popup a screen below, asking for permission for the Avast! E-Mail Scanner to have access (ashMaiSv.exe), you should therefore tell your firewall to allow this program access.

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