These settings are within each individual email program. I have no idea of exactly where they are within each of your email programs (I don’t use them) - but the path above is from the Outlook Express menu list at the top of the OE window. Click Tools, then Accounts, then select the account settings you want to check/change and click Properties. Form hear click the Server Tab and you can check/change the settings to ensure that they are correct.

Your problem is to find where these settings are within your other email programs, you after all have more knowledge of them than I do.

I can find the email remove protection section but . Where are the tools, accounts at exactly, I looked at the settings on the avast icon, not there, the program start menu, not there, and the actual folder for the program not there either.

Did you not find the Mail protection Wizard? - Click the Windows Start button, then All Programs, then Avast AntiVirus, then Mail Protection Wizard - Then follow my previous instructions, print the thread out if it helps to refer to when trying to find, etc.

I thought I had made it clear that the Tools, Accounts, etc. where in your email programs (obviously not, see above) and not Avast.

Sorry for being stupid Also the program now says 3 out of 5 providers running.

The number of providers simply means that you have disabled 2 of the providers that you don’t require, I only use 2 Internet Mail and Standard Shield, I don’t use the other programs that would require the other providers, Outlook, IM or P2P program/s.

Even if you have disabled the Internet Mail provider protection within Avast this doesn’t change your email account settings in the email programs back (as I explained previously), you have to run the Mail Protection Wizard to do this or do it manually.

Did you find the Help file, Windows Start button, then All Programs, then Avast AntiVirus, then Help? Because everything we are talking about is in there.

David