Can't send email in Hotmail Outlook account

OK, I’ve searched on this topic, but nothing that mirrors what I am seeing has turned up… I have had Avast installed for a year now, never any problems until a couple of days ago. Specifically, I cannot send emails or ‘reply all’ in my Hotmail Outlook email. I do receive emails, and everything works perfectly when I temporarily turn Avast off. When I turn Avast back on, the problems reappear. When I click on the reply all button, some dotted lines traverse the screen from left to right at the top of the Outlook email folder…

Incidentally, my wife told me that 2 days ago there were a number of Avast pop-ups appearing on the screen, but she doesn’t recall what they were concerning, but something to do with blocking something, and they were very repetitive.

I have checked the POP Settings in Outlook and changed to AUTO, and yesterday that appeared to fix the issue, but this morning the same issue appears.

try avast repair

controlpanel > ad/remove programs > avast > uninstall/change > repair option…wait a minute and reboot

any change?

Thanks, I’ll do that when I get home this evening…

You may want to also look in the Virus chest and see if something was put there during the “block”.
I’m only guessing…and not an expert…but if this worked for a good while and only does not work now after a “block” then Avast may have caught some items and not others…which are now blocking email. Of course this does not really explain if you turn Avast off things works. Anyway, just a thought on Virus chest.

If you do want/need to go down the virus removal route here is the Avast How-To: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0