Sorry if this post is in the wrong forum,,I'm not very good with computers to begin with so please bear with me. Lately it seems I'm getting alot of attachments that when i go to download, the following avast warning comes up,,"Unable to scan attachments",,,"the attached file has not been scanned because it may be password protected or corrupted". It then gives the option to continue downloading the file)s). The reason I ask about this is that it usually never happened before. Now it doesn't happen all the time,,just more frequently it seems. I'm using the latest avast version (the free one) and it automatically updates itself. I've opened the attachments if there from someone i know,,but I was just wondering why, in laymans terms, they can't be scanned. Thanks