For many reasons, we have advised against using Norton or McAfee programs
for quite some time now. I have had one computer that came with a free trial
of Norton, and another with McAfee. In both cases I removed those programs
before I did anything else.

I don't know if those programs cause any problems with MS Outlook, but they
continue to cause problems with Windows mail.

My canned reply for the die-hards:

I would suggest either Avast, (freeware), or NOD32, (not free).

In the case of Avast, choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.

Norton, and McAfee, products are not Outlook Express friendly, and I don't
know of any OE-MVP that would recommend using them.

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

NOD32:
http://www.eset.com/

Regardless of the AV program, e-mail scanning should /never/ be used with
OE.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Tim Witort wrote:

Why would email scanning cause the error, but rebooting fix
the problem? Email is being scanned in both cases. The system
is using Norton Internet Security 2006, by the way. I will try
turning off email scanning to see if it helps, but something
tells me it is not the cause.

Somewhat off-topic, but I just heard today that there are big problems
with Norton 2006-series of products that can allow malicious code to run,
even through the firewall.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]