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[quote=“dacovale”]I thought that all Avast did was to change the settings in the mail-program. (like, change adresses for POP / SMTP servers)
[quote=“ehume”]That’s what I thought, too.
[quote=“dacovale”]Since I read the Avast forums, could you perhaps tell me what went wrong?
[quote=“ehume”]After I uninstalled Avast, SpamBayes no longer worked. As for what followed, I might have been able to avoid it had I known what the MS advisory messages meant. It told me that the last time I opened Outlook with SpamBayes it didn’t work out; would I like to disable SpamBayes? I indicated yes, then was not able to remember where it said the list of disabled items was (it’s in Help > About Outlook, of all things). I ended up with two different Personal Folders, neither one of which could be deleted. The newer one was the active one, of course, but all of my “shortcuts” referred to the old one. In the end, uninstallation and scouring was the only solution, followed by reinstallation. Yet, even now I have lost a function involved in moving files. At bottom: you are stuck with Avast until you do a disk wipe and start all over again.
And Avast used 40MB of RAM while the two AVG-related functions are using 7.2MB.