http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/...orruption.mspx


"Galloping Hairpin" wrote in
message ...
| Hi Bruce,
|
| In the Avast control centre there is a resident provider called Internet
| Mail. It 's dialog has tabs for Inbound mail (POP protocol), outbound mail
| (SMTP protocol), inbound mail (IMAP protocol), News (NNTP protocol) and
some
| others which are not relevant. The ones mentioned here each have
checkboxes
| to enable/disable scanning.
|
| There is another resident provider called Outlook/Exchange. This has,
among
| others, a tab for Scanner, with checkboxes for scanning inbound, outbound
| and archived messages and message bodies and a tab for Outbound mail with
a
| checkbox for scanning attachments.
|
| I really don't understand the distinction beteeen these two providers but
| anyway I first tried unchecking all the boxes in all the above tabs. That
had
| no effect. I then tried terminating both providers which also had no
effect.
|
| So it seems that my only recourse is to do as you suggest and reinstall
| Avast without the email protection. However I note that in the OEHelp link
| you provided there is a post from Frank Saunders which mentions keeping
virus
| definitions up to date with LiveUpdate. I currently have all Microsoft
| automatic updating disabled so does that leave my email system vulnerable
| without the Avast scanners?
|