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/

If you choose AVG:

When prompted, choose Custom Installation and *uncheck* e-mail scanning when
you see the option.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"BBH" wrote in message
...
I am glad that I found this thread!!! I thought that I was going bananas. I
downloaded and installed the abovementioned patches on Friday night and
have
been encoutering "Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket
Error:
10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E" since then.

I have MS Win XP Pro SP2, Outlook Express 6.0 and Norton 2006 12.7

Have been contemplating dumping Norton AV and going to a combination of
AVG
and Avira.

XOXOXO to all on this thread. And to Carole, great observation about
unloading AV s/w before downloading updates.

BBH

"Carole" wrote:


For those who are just joining this thread, I donâ?Tt know how long
Bruceâ?Ts
fix will keep. Weâ?Tll just have to wait until the next Patch Tuesday.
Iâ?Tm
glad he reminded me that most software companies advise to uninstall your
AV
before downloading programs. It didnâ?Tt occur to me that this would be
necessary with Windows Update, but now it all makes a lot of sense.
Havenâ?Tt
got a clue as to why it took so long for the problem to occur??? Iâ?Tve
been
running Norton since Windows Update began.