Currently I am only running the default firewall that came with Win XP.
I use both Outlook Express 6 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 as my email clients (I listed these in my first post).
I get the following error when trying to check emails:
The server responded with an error. Account: 'Atryeu', Server: 'mail.pacifier.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Cannot connect to POP server 64.255.238.209 (64.255.238.209:110), connect error 10061', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90
In Mozilla, the error just states that it cannot connect to the POP3 email. As soon as the Internet Mail is disabled in Avast, all of my emails will check just fine.
DavidR: Thank you for the link about Norton. I did remove all of the extras earlier today including other random folders and registry entries. I had a list of registry files and such for the software from back when I helped a friend completely remove it from their system. I also had the same version as they did, and I had kept the information and was able to delete everything completely without trouble