Rob, I agree. Never had this issue before the latest update. (2014.9.0.2008) I have not had a response to the ticket as of yet. I hadn’t tried turning off just the web shield as I figured it would be the email shield (turning just the email shield off doesn’t work). I’ll have to see if turning just web shield off will work, just to see.

Can’t continue to use updated version of avast! Free if the Outlook issue isn’t fixed soon. I use Outlook all day long receiving work from clients and sending the completed work back to them. And I don’t want to turn off protection in order to send emails.

No error pops up. Nothing pops up from avast!. It’s just when you try to send an email it just sits there in the Outbox folder continuing to attempt to send. Then Outlook finally quits trying and the email is still sitting in Outlook’s Outbox folder.

If I get a response to the ticket, I’ll be sure to post the response here.