visit the User’s FAQ thread, it will give you a lot of useful advice. In particular look at the Mail Protection Wizard post.

[QUOTE]Also on these protectors AM I supposed to have all of them going.
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Only the ones that you need, I have only four essential to my needs. These are Standard Shield, Internet Mail, Network Shield and Web Shield. Unless you use MS Outlook (not express) you don’t need Outlook/Exchange provider.

[QUOTE]I am trying to understand but it keeps going over my head
I have even clicked on about avast and read up on things but I am still confused
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Hopefully the FAQ link above will help.

[QUOTE]I just need some basic things to do to make my email (outlook express) work ok To scan my emails and say clean if they are
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