[Did a little search to find this topic which is why this response is so late.]

I have the same problem. Win98SE. Avast doesn’t support my e-mail server (freeway.net via corecomm). So I ran the wizard and changed the setting so it would stop shoving the 127.0.0.1 settings in there and now, if I’m gathering correctly, Avast won’t protect my e-mail? Is that correct? How do I get it to protect my mail without going through the Avast server? I can at least download my e-mail now tho I can’t send but I think that’s because I just changed from dial-up to DSL on our home network and I haven’t figured out the outgoing mail settings yet.