avast free blocks login authentication of e-mail address in thunderbird 115.10.1

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For some unknown reason Avast started blocking the authentication of my e-mail address login after the latest update of Mozilla Thunderbird, 115.10.1. I am not sure why this happened but I had to go into settings and make an exception for thunderbird.exe before it would start functioning normally again. It was asking me for the password every time I opened the client, and refused to accept the password when I put it in.

Anyone have any idea when this will be fixed?

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Have you tried temporarily turning off the Mail Shield to see if the problem remains?

Something similar was reported here a few weeks ago by another user. It must have been an older version of Thunderbird involved so possibly not the same thing but it seems like a bit of a coincidence.