Hi, I used to be able to do this, Avast had a 'components' settings section where I could look under mail and disable NNTP scanning there, they've updated the software and now the menu system has completely changed. I find settings for SMTP, POP, IMAP and HTTP but no NNTP and I've used the search function too to find NNTP, was disabling this removed? Is there something else I'm meant to disable? I use a news reader and I find that Avast messes up the connection speed readings, this was confirmed by me disabling Avast for 10min and then connecting and the application I used works fine...turn Avast back on and it breaks again.