Thanks Gary. So far, just disabling Avast's email scanner has been working
for me. But the minute it doesn't, I'll do the uninstall and custom
reinstall as you suggested. The article was interesting. I never thought
about the mechanics behind checking attachments.


"Gary VanderMolen (MVP)" wrote in message
...
Your Avast! antivirus was probably installed with its default install
option,
which installs an email scanning module. Just disabling its email scanning
is not a sufficient remedy. Uninstall Avast!, then reinstall, but select
'custom'
install, which then allows you to unselect installing its troublesome
email
scanning module.

Email scanning in any antivirus should be disabled, for reasons
explained he
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)