Sorry about that. You said Avast, but my brain saw AVG. w You want
Internet Mail turned off. I use Avast myself and suggest installing it this
way.

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

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

But what about this Read Mail folder? Outlook Express doesn't have such a
folder unless you create it.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA



"Galloping Hairpin" wrote in
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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?