I recently got a laptop with Norton Antivirus preinstalled. The laptop runs on Windows Vista home. I was able to set up outlook as a client for both my gmail and aol email accounts. Everything was working fine. But then I decided to try Avast 4.8 on recommendation of a friend so I uninstalled Norton and installed Avast 4.8 and I have not slept since then( I mean literally!)!!!
I can’t access either mailbox from outlook anymore. it keeps saying a connection to the server could not be established. Tried setting Windows mail as a client for my gmail, there it’s saying the imap command could not be sent to the server because of a non network error. I couldn’t access the internet through the dial up I use at home. Had to disenable web shield. It seems to allow limited connectivity now and last but not least, I can not update the Avast virus database either manually or automatically-keeps saying cannot connect to server.
Guys, do you have ANY solution to this??? Maybe I should just stick to that clusmy looking but safe good ol’ Norton… ??? ??? ???