I did have a free trial of adaware
Ad-Aware SE is free.
Well it was something similar then, adaway, adbegone, adbuggeroff or similar...
Ive just installed adaware and there were a few nasties lurking which I have got rid of. Cheers.
still getting the timeout problem though, its just taking longer for the message to pop up now. Ive set the OE setting to the highest lenght of time and ive set the timeout on Avast to 10000. You say its something to do with it scanning my mail? would that be inbound? Im still recieving mail so its not jamming it or anything.
maybe its just one of those things?
would a reinstall of avast help do you think?