Like shgoh said… he just needs to run Mail Protection Wizard, define his SMTP and POP servers, and that’s it. It will solve all his problems.

Disabling avast! or God forbid, uninstalling avast! won’t solve his problems…

Oh, yeah… almost forgot… he needs to start On-Access Protection Control (ON-Access scanner), just click on blue ball with letter “a” inside - next to your system clock, then click on Internet Mail icon on the left side. When icon is marked (blue) click on CUSTOMIZE. Now click on HEURISTICS tab and set your SENSITIVITY to MEDIUM.

I’m 100% sure it will solve rruner5’s problems