LeLe, I could not agree more! Avast is the first antivirus program I have ever used that handled mail so well and with such small resource requirements. At this point I don’t think I could live without it.

I did uninstall/reinstall avast yesterday as well as visit the MS windows update site and scanned for updates even though technically speaking I had taken the most recent critical updates last Thursday. Lo and behold the site reported I needed a “wrap up” patch (about 256K) to complete my updates. I installed that immediately. Since that time avast has downloaded/scanned about 2000 mails (cleaned 4 infections) without a problem.

I am keeping my fingers crossed for the AM download on Tuesday. One of the accounts I check gets LOTS of spam (and viruses!) so I am a little anxious to see if all goes well. This problem seems to have appeared for several people on the same weekend (ariaaudio was the first to report it in the other thread I mentioned above) and I can only assume it is a new variant of a spam message/virus, or else is associated with the MS critical updates that everyone in the world was advised to take late last week. (The only other change in my system I think are the two “push” VPS updates I got in avast Pro late last week.)

As fas as I could tell none of the emails I had to bypass avast in order to downlaod had suspicious attachments so the problem is either in a new type of html body or else the MS updates. Perhaps the “wrap up” security patch MS is providing “fixes” something with the critical update they are not talking about…

Keeping my fingers crossed!

Sean D