Whenever I start Outlook and want to receive my emails, I need to de-activate Avast. Otherwhise Outlook won´t download the emails.
Does anybody has had a similar problem?
It is very anoying, as this way it wonñt protect the mails I get. I noticed it that it esepecially hangs when it needs to donwload files which come with the emails.
I use:
Outlook 2003
Spamihilator 0.9.9.38
Avast Home V4.7
I am using Windows Xp Professional (Spanish Version) (1GB mem, 160GB HD)
I havce different mails:
1 using a VPOP3 using a local server.
2 Directly conected to the servers of the company where we have our mailaccounts (mail.mydomain.com and SMTP.mydomain.com)
Then I have Spamihilator as a Spamfilter, which uses 127.0.0.1 as Mailserver (my own PC).
I noticed that when my webcam send me some pictures (each 20K big), it keeps scanning them and Spamihilator also tries to check then. When I then de-activate Avast, start Outlook again, it downloads the files with no problems…
I don´t want to give up Spamihilator, as it is a great anti-spam program, and it is free. Now if you know a program that does the same thing (also free) and which works 100% with Avast, please tell me. I am willing to change it as I don´t want to change Avast.
Make sure the avast plugin is not disabled into MS Outlook:
Outlook 2007 > Tools > Trust center > Add-inns > Manage Disabled items.
Outlook 2003 > Help > About > Disabled items.
Outlook 2002 > Help > About Microsoft Outlook > Disabled items.
Outlook 2000 > Tools menu > Options > Other > Advanced Options > Add-In Manager.