I use OutLook 2003 and it is not maintained anymore by MicroSoft.
The release is 11.5608.5606.
My Windows7 Professionnal-SP1-32bits is updated automatically and I have never seen any update related to OutLook.
But I think that OutLook is not part of Windows but part of MicroSoft Office.
I don't understand your question. Without AVAST running, my OutLook works fine. The problem does not come from OutLook.
It comes from AVAST and probably from the last release of AVAST because the error appeared quite recently.
I have tried AVIRA and I don't get timerout error with this software.
Gab