I have installed Avast yesterday evening working with Windows XP. Everything works fine except to send and receive my email. Outlook express send me an error message each time I try to send/receive my mail. To solve the problem temporarly I have disactived the email fonction in the Avast menu.
Do you have any idea how to solve my problem
I use windows XP and the firewall from Windows. Below the message I get from outlook express
Le serveur a renvoyé une erreur. Compte : ‘Serveur de messagerie’, Serveur : ‘pop3.free.fr’, Protocole : POP3, Réponse du serveur : ‘-ERR concurrent connections limit in avast exceeded(pass:20, processes:emproxy.exe[19], msimn.exe[1]), there is a collision with another program’, Port : 110, Sécurisé (SSL) : Non, Erreur de serveur : 0x800CCC90, Numéro d’erreur : 0x800CCC90
The program that is causing a clash/collision is emproxy.exe and if you do a forum search for emproxy.exe you will find a recent topic that points out that emproxy.exe is a part of McAfee anti-virus.
Description:
emproxy.exe is a process associated with McAfee Email Proxy from McAfee, Inc..
Having two resident scanners installed is not recommended as rather than provide twice the protection it can cause conflicts that could leave you more vulnerable.