yep - welcome to the club. from your post i know now the problem is os independent.

i first noticed the prob with outlook 2k3 crashing with enabled avast email shield under
xp. i submitted a support ticket to the avast guys but they replied with a std. answer “…thanks
for your input … we are looking who’s affected…”

so i don’t think they are going to fix this bug in the near future! sorry to say that :frowning:

edit check also this thread - maybe it’s a wakeup call for the guys at avast (hopefully)
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=74861.0