Lele,

Thanks for the info on the “scan archives” option. I am not using the Outlook/Exchange service because my main cleint is Thunderbird which I set up manually in the Internet Mail service area. The option to scan archives is not available there. You raise an interesting point though regarding the additional scanning of the archive as perhaps contributing to the problem. In my case it was not doing that but one of my accounts does get a lot of spam and I have had over 2 thousand emails scanned on any single day during the prior two weeks before encountering the overrun.

I am anxious to try and get to the bottom of this because of my need to deploy avast on other workstations (On my own PC alone the number of email borne files cleaned and moved to the chest is pretty terrifying, over 838 during the first two weeks before I uninstalled/reinstalled avast last Friday, and 48 since then!). I never realised the ferocity of these viruses and worms and prior to imstalling avast I had no statistics on just how many were coming via email.

Having read about your setup, I plan on setting up Outlook Express as a second client on my PC and have both clients download the mail but not delete it from the server so that if I do mange to repeat the overrun I will have a copy of all emails still on the pop server that i can send to avast support for analysis.

Thank you for having opened this thread, it gave me some relief to know that what I was experiencing was not unique (I guess misery loves company) and I am hopefull that at some point soon the problem will be fixed.

Sean D