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+==== Latest Version of AVAST (4.5) ====
+The latest version of avast has a "transparent" scanner and Popfile can be set up in the standard manner (On Win (NT/2K/XP) systems). Avast will then (without alteration) scan incoming mail before Popfile.
+NOTE: If you had used the following method to setup Avast in the past you NEED TO CHANGE YOUR SETUP...or you will be double scanning your emails. [[HowTos:Avast#fixavast| How to adjust Avast v4.5]]
+==== AVAST V4.X on Win9.X systems ====
+Use My Computer to navigate to:
+<code>c:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast\Data</code>
+Find the "avast4.ini" file and open it with Notepad.
+Scroll down until you find the line:
+<code>[MailScanner]</code>
+Highlight everything between [MailScanner] and ShowTrayIcon lines. Copy the below and paste it in place in the Avast4.ini:
+<code>
+PopListen=127.0.0.1:8110
+Trust=127.0.0.1
+DefaultPopServer=127.0.0.1:110
+SmtpListen=127.0.0.1:25
+ImapListen=127.0.0.1:144
+</code>
+(You are replacing everything between the [MailScanner] and ShowTrayIcon lines with the above.)
+Save the file.
+That's all for Avast.
+==== MAIL CLIENT ====
+(example using Outlook Express)
+Go to Tools > Accounts > Properties
+Click the Servers tab
+Remember to write down what is entered in POP3 and SMTP.
+Change both the POP3 and SMTP servers to //127.0.0.1//
+In Account Name: //<original POP3 Server>:<username>//
+(So, if your original POP3 Server was "//incoming.here.com//" and your username is //MickeyMouse//, you should have //incoming.here.com:MickeyMouse//)
+Check the "My Server requires authentication" box and then the "Setting" button.
+Click the "Log on using" choice and in "Account name" enter:
+<code><username>#<original SMTP server></code>
+Type in your password.
+(So, if your original SMTP Server was "//outgoing.here.com//" and your username is //MickeyMouse//, you should have //MickeyMouse#outgoing.here.com//)
+Click OK.
+Go to the Advanced tab (at top of panel)
+Change the Incoming mail (POP3) port from 110 to 8110
+Click APPLY and OK
+That completes the Mail Client changes.
+==== POPFILE ====
+Start the POPFile GUI and click the Advanced tab.  Scroll down and verify:
+<code>pop3_port: 110
+pop3_secure_port: 110</code>
+Click the "UPDATE" button
+Close everything. Reboot the machine.
+You will now have Avast and POPFile working.
+The Avast Inbound and Outbound messages will be on e-mails.  Check it by sending e-mail to yourself.
+[#fixavast]
+==== Avast! v4.5 Popfile adjustments ====
+Avast v4.5 now "transparently" scans pop3 connections on Win (NT/2K/XP). Therefore there is no special setup for Popfile to work with Avast. If you had previously setup a "proxy chain" for Avast you have two choices after the upgrade (otherwise your email will be double scanned by Avast).
+<code>
+). You can instruct Avast to stop scanning on port 110...and keep scanning on what
+ever port you had previously selected (and have programed into your mail client):
+By adding PopRedirectPort=8110 (or what ever port you had selected) to the
+[MailScanner] section of the Avast.ini file.
+). You can revert Avast to its default setting and change your mail client to
+use Popfile in the standard way i.e., You reset your mail client to use Popfile
+in the normal manner and you can then stop Avast from "checking" ports other
+than 110 by setting the Avast.ini back to default:
+-----default yet complete ini section -----
+[MailScanner]
+DefaultPopServer=
+DefaultSmtpServer=
+DefaultImapServer=
+PopListen=127.0.0.1:110
+SmtpListen=127.0.0.1:25
+ImapListen=127.0.0.1:143
+UseDefaultSmtp=0
+AutoSetProtection=1
+ShowTrayIcon=1
+UseAlternateRtfSyncing=1
+Log=1
+PassThrough=0
+Trust=127.0.0.1
+UseWSAAccept=
+StartPop=
+StartSmtp=1
+StartPop=
+StartImap=
+PopRedirectPort=110
+SmtpRedirectPort=25
+ImapRedirectPort=143
+</code>

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