"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message
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Err,,,
I have exactly the same problem. I'm on Windows 7, and using Windows
Live Mail to read usenet, and have Avast.

To be honest, I thought this "many posters just repeating the original
post" was a running gag until I checked this thread on Google Groups, to
find it wasn't at all how my newsreader displays it.

(Hence my feeble attempt here to join in with the running gag that never
was).


I thought it was quite a good gag, actually!



Gareth.

Funnily enough, I did 'get it' and figured that was exactly what you were
doing. You and I must have a very similar sense of humour ... So have
you cleared the problem up ? I've just done the removing of port 119 from
the NNTP checker as advised by Lee above, and that has allowed me to
restore all the mail checking in Avast, whilst leaving usenet alone. I
too am using Windows 7. The thing is, what has triggered this behaviour
suddenly ? I am not aware of any recent upgrade to the core of Avast. As
far as I know, it always tells you if there is an update to the program
rather than the definitions, which update automatically. I wonder if they
have piggybacked a core update to a definitions update ? Interestingly,
last week, my workshop machine, which runs W2K Pro and Avast, *did*
report an update to the Avast program core, which I then manually
allowed. I assumed that this was because the update was specifically for
machines running 2K, and was the reason that my W7 machine did not report
the same update being available. I'm beginning to wonder now ...

Arfa


Hi Arfa,

no I haven't cleared the problem up. I had a look at Avast and turned off
the real time mail scanning thing, then thought better of it and turned it
back on again.

To be honest, this is not enough of a problem for me to mess with turning
bits of the antivirus off. I expect eventually some upgrade will sort
things out for me.
I've only come across 2 threads where I noticed this anomaly, funnily
enough, this being one of them!
(Hence my initial belief it was a gag)

Btw, my symptoms are identical to the spoof reply I posted - the first
four (Marks, Rich's, Ron's and Lee's) replies all appear identical to my
spoof one, all others in the thread are normal.


Cheers!



Gareth.


It is strange indeed. You don't really have to turn the Mail Shield off
properly. Just select the "disable for 10 minutes" option to check if it
cures the problem. It just automatically reinstates itself after that period
of time.

Arfa