Avast 4.5 crashes with Office

[jnero]

Yes it does crash. I had to join the VRDB icon into the other icon.
There is a feature that allows you to only have 1 icon instead
of two. Word, Excel and Outlook were crashing within 5 seconds.
Outlook would only crash when I closed it. My system seems to
be working now.

[igor]

I'm quite sure that joining those two avast! icons cannot change anything about other applications' crashing (maybe unless you are using Win9x and you are in a low-resource condition - but even in that case it would be a big coincidence).

More details about the crash would be useful, but I rather doubt it has anything to do with avast!.