I don’t blame you since it’s rather long (and not really Avast-relevant), although not as long as the thread it links to.
but they have sold you a bill of goods or you misread what was there.
Heh heh. Yes and no, as I wrote it myself. :o
I went to check out this and these settings are for AVG and avast doesn't need these for your email to be scanned (see below), so it looks like your uninstall of AVG didn't reset your email account settings.
Agreed.
So the change (or change back) of your email account settings is likely to be what cause the alert message to be displayed as the old password may not have been retained.
Evidently that is the case. Anyway email is being scanned and life moves on, however fitfully.
Looks like a pretty good forum here. I appreciate the support. Thanks!