"Charlie Bress" wrote in message
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Without any warning I have been unable to access my email account.
This also happens to another user on the same PC.
The OS is XP Pro w/sp2. The error message is below.

The server responded with an error. Account: 'mail.comcast.net',
Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR
AVG POP3 Proxy Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!', Port:
110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number:
0x800CCC90


Uninstall AVG. Reinstall it but do a customized install where you
DESELECT the e-mail scanning plug-in. I mention to uninstall and
reinstall AVG because disabling its e-mail scanning plug-in is not
permanent: on next reboot, AVG will reenable that plug-in.

E-mail scanning is superfluous and adds no further protection over the
on-access (realtime) scanner. It does, however, move detection
earlier by interrogating the e-mail traffic but what it detects is the
same as what the on-access scanner would detect if you ever tried to
save or open that attachment. That interrogation causes delays
because the AV program has to go looking inside the e-mail traffic
before it can release it to the e-mail client (for received mail) or
to the mail host (for sent mail), and those delays can cause timeouts.