How To Disable Or Stop Avast Email Signature Avast Antivirus has been protecting and securing the machines and devices since very long. It is serving both small and large size organizations with all the protective features. If you are using Avast along with the free version and majority of desktop email clients (Zimbra desktop, Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsof Outlook, Inky, eM client and claws Mail, then you will notice that this antivirus will automatically insert the email footer signature in your all outgoing messages. Apart from the desktop emailing, it has inserted its signature in Web-based client Outlook Mail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Live Mail in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. The only browser which doesn't have this antivirus signature is Opera.
How to stop or disable the Avast email footer signaturea. From your system tray right click on the Avast icon and choose Open Avast User Interface'. b. At the top right select the gear icon for selecting the Avast's settings. c. Unmark ‘Enable Avast email signature’ under General Settings.
And there is another section where you need to change the settingsa. Go to Active protection tab in the settings window. b. Next to Mail Shield option, click on Customize option. c. Select the Behavior tab then. d. Unmark 'Insert note into clean message (outgoing)'.
By default these settings are turned on which is quite frustrating as you may not be aware that the signatures are being added in your outgoing emails until and unless you go through every email in your sent folder.