Please, try to disable web shield and restart outlook. If it won't help, try to disable all shields and test it again.
Let me know if something of it works.
Thanks,
Petr
Petr, thx so much for the reply.....I believe my issue was NOT Avast.
After more work LATE last night I found out that it had to do with an issue with new Exhange server.
In brief summary, we went from POP service to Microsoft Office 365 service (exchange).
Ironically, the very PC that was on Avast 9, all others still on Avast 8, also had a HUGE (4GB) native PST file.
When we created OST file and imported it messed up something in the account.
I took Avast 9 out of the equation and rolled back to Avast 8 just to reduce any variables.
It all works now with since we removed (Archived) a lot of the old data and got to a more manageable OST size.
So.....my post here is not an Avast issue.
However, there are known Outlook issues.....best post/thread is this one.
I'm waiting to upgrade my various PCs on your next program update and see what fixes are included....hopefully one to solve this thread.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=141404.0I will probably try one PC as BETA before I jump in deep end of pool 100% on Avast 9.