OT - Mistery Icon

Hi,

I have just got a new computer, and have started to install all of my good
freeware programs on to it.

However, now in my tool bar is the following icon which refers to my
newsgroup account. I can't figure out which program is "protecting" my
newsgroup connection?

http://www.cili.org.uk/icon.gif

Any ideas?

Anthony

Try right clicking on it & see if Properties tells you .
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"Anthony Deane" <ajd66@cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:cvkaj6$1da$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I have just got a new computer, and have started to install all of my good
> freeware programs on to it.
>
> However, now in my tool bar is the following icon which refers to my
> newsgroup account. I can't figure out which program is "protecting" my
> newsgroup connection?
>
> http://www.cili.org.uk/icon.gif
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Anthony
That would be the new feature in the latest version of Avast! anti-virus.
Now protecting newsgroups.

Tony(UK)

"Tony (UK)" <tony_smith100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Anthony Deane" <ajd66@cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:cvkaj6$1da$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just got a new computer, and have started to install all of my
>> good freeware programs on to it.
>>
>> However, now in my tool bar is the following icon which refers to my
>> newsgroup account. I can't figure out which program is "protecting" my
>> newsgroup connection?
>>
>> http://www.cili.org.uk/icon.gif
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Anthony
> That would be the new feature in the latest version of Avast! anti-virus.
> Now protecting newsgroups.
>
> Tony(UK)
Woo hoo!

Many thanks!

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:37:06 -0000, Tony (UK) wrote:

> That would be the new feature in the latest version of Avast! anti-virus.
> Now protecting newsgroups.
>
> Tony(UK)

This thing worried me for days. It originally only showed up when I
launched Thunderbird.

_Chrissy Cruiser_, giovedě 24/feb/2005:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:37:06 -0000, Tony (UK) wrote:
>
>> That would be the new feature in the latest version of Avast! anti-virus.
>> Now protecting newsgroups.
>>
>> Tony(UK)
>
> This thing worried me for days. It originally only showed up when I
> launched Thunderbird.

I had to disable the nntp scanning because it didn't let me connect with
news.octanews.com anymore and slowed down the download from my ISP server.

This issue is reported in the Avast forum:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PH...9&topic=11400.0
--
Maria Luisa C - 25/02/2005 19.10.04

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:19:44 GMT, MLC wrote:

>> This thing worried me for days. It originally only showed up when I
>> launched Thunderbird.
>
> I had to disable the nntp scanning because it didn't let me connect with
> news.octanews.com anymore and slowed down the download from my ISP server.

I killed it too b/c it was dropping my connection and I was getting headers
only. Damn, the thing will bring your to a crawl on broadband.