OK, I just installed AVAST 4.8 on my Vista laptop (been using AVAST on my previous desktops and laptops since 2002) as my bitdefender licence came to an end.
Great, except that now my default mail account, which uses Alt-N Outlook Connector for MDaemon, is set to read only when I open an item (email, calender, task or contact) so I can’t edit them, or delete from the message tool bar; but from the main outlook window things are good - the delete button works and for tasks I can edit shown details in the tasks window.
I can create a new item and it works fine until a send/receive operation and that too becomes read only. >:(
I uninstalled avast and my mailbox returned to normal.
I re-installed & I have excluded the path to the cache.db file, and even disabled both mail and outlook resident protection module but i think the effect occurs as part of the install.
I never had this problem in the past on my PC (up till Feb this year), so what is the fix? Other than go back to Bitdefender