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Vlk,
Thanks, that was helpfull.
I decided to upgrade avast! tonight to the new build just released since I figured there was not much point to trying to debug an older build. On reboot I discovered that the new build detected Norton Antivirus installed on my PC even though I had uninstalled it (the older build did not complain and did load the resident scanner, but the new build seems to have found some remnant still around and refused to load the resident scanner)
In an effort to try and get rid of everything Norton and Symantec on my PC (XP) I used add/remove and unistalled Live Update and PCAnywhere (the only related items that were still in the add/remove applet) After a reboot, avastt resident shield did run and the Internet Mail service functioned, my mail client downloaded mail and it was scanned by avast etc. But… somehow these uninstalls messed up my Internet Explorer and it gets a fatal error when trying to run it. Likewise my System Restore function also seems to be broken. I am accessing my PC remotely from home so will have to wait until I get to work in the AM to try booting to safe mode and trying to undo everything I did tonight and starting fromm scratch again. I don’t think any of this is related to avast and as soon as I get it all cleared up I will start testing the new build again to see if the overrun returns.
Additional iinfo: Yes I had set the Internet Mail scanner to use Heuristics and also insert clean messages, as well as use the “push” feature. I dont plan on making any changes to this so that going forward I am theoretically trying to find/repeat the problem I encountered before with the same config but a new avast build . If it does not occur again perhaps the new build will have helped (or maybe it was whatever was still hanging around from my Norton uninstall that the new build found tonight).
Like LeLe says, keeping my fingers crossed! (seems like nothing is easy with MS)
Thanks,
Sean D