Avast Anti-virus Program CAn it Scan Web-based e-mail Programs?

[Robert]

I recently downloaded AVAST 4.1.357 a free anti-virus program which seems
very good but I have the following questions:.

1)Is this program capable of scanning web-based e-mail such as
Yahoo and others? If so how might that be done?
2) If it does not scan incoming and outgoing mail,, does AVAST
scan attachments on these we-based e-mails?
3) In general, do most anti-virus programs only scan web-based
e-mail attachments and not the e-mail itself?

If anyone has information on these
questions , I would be very appreciative .

Thank you,
,

 

[madmax]

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I recently downloaded AVAST 4.1.357 a free anti-virus program which
seems very good but I have the following questions:.

1)Is this program capable of scanning web-based e-mail such
as Yahoo and others? If so how might that be done?

yes, with the resident sheild running all providers,IE is scanned as you
view web pages

2) If it does not scan incoming and outgoing mail,, does
AVAST scan attachments on these we-based e-mails?

avast scans in real-time as you download messages(there is a pop-up in the
tray if you wish to see it run)

3) In general, do most anti-virus programs only scan
web-based e-mail attachments and not the e-mail itself?

I don't think AVG does but I'm not sure.

If anyone has information on these
questions , I would be very appreciative .

Thank you,
,

you can find more answers on their forum
http://forum.avast.com/index.php
-max

 

[Dave Cohen]

In my evaluation of AVG and deliberately downloading a virus attachment to
test it, it seemed to save the attachment to my Pegasus mail folder then
tells me the file contains a virus and name of file. Problem was I couldn't
see any way to get AVG to work on this file, dialog told me to scan system -
not very good but I may have missed something by not knowing the product
very well.
On the other hand NAV seems to catch and delete the attachment as it does
the download, it certainly seems not to take very long to react. From what I
have read, AVAST seems to do a better job on email.
Dave Cohen