Hi all,
I'm new to the forum as well as Avast (I installed it about 2 weeks ago). Yesterday, while Outlook 2007 was running Avast detected suspicious email and alerted me. Like a dummy I didn't allow Avast to block as I thought I knew the sender. Immediately after hitting "do not block" my Outlook started downloading over two thousand email!
In a panic, I shut everything down. After restarting (I'm running Vista) everything booted up as normal so I, once again, opened Outlook. Same warning from Avast only this time I permitted the block. Unfortunately, same thing happened.... 2K emails started to download so I immediately shut down Outlook.
That happened yesterday, this morning I opened Outlook and, this time, was not given any warnings by Avast but the 2K emails still tried to load. Again, I shut down Outlook and have not opened it since.
The strange thing is Avast is not picking up anything. Today, however, as I was surfing my 'usual' sites I noticed that none of my passwords were saved. I'm paranoid now that all my passwords are being captured by someone, somewhere.
Any advise. I can follow directions extremely well but not technically-saavy enough to find root cause.
Any and all help would be appreciated. I've thought of uninstalling/reinstalling Microsoft Office but wasn't quite sure if that would be a potential fix or just exasperate the problem.
Thanks,
Cyndi