I've installed Avast Free after many years absence.
It's on an old XP box, no other AV applications.
It appears to strip the body from outbound email even though it is set to not scan outbound, but I don't think that's what's actually happening because...
it's also preventing me from saving spreadsheet, text or other files.
I temporarily solved the email problem by adding an exclusion to the file monitor for nsmsg.html (using Thunderbird there). So I think the email and file save problems are the same -- it's preventing some file from being saved that is a prerequisite for sending the email.
I've found some old references to Outlook but nothing that points to a solution in my case.
I know it is Avast because if I disable it, all functionality returns to normal.
Any ideas?
I can't be adding an Exclusion for every file I ever want to save....