Technical, thanks for the pointers, it is true that I might reduce my Avast popups by handling the spam differently. My Outlook rules correctly identify 99% of my spam, but Avast warns me of infections before the Outlook rules take over.

Avast developers should be sure to recognize the problem of the recent worms which caused a HUGE volume of infected mail (for everyone, not just for me). For a while, I had to disable Avast just to be able to retrieve my email, because I was getting over 50 infected emails per day. I don’t know any of the senders, it’s essentially just infected spam.

Thanks, I think this topic is closed,
Gary