Howard M. Rensin wrote:

> I would not keep posting if I got a real response and not some smartass
> comment. I have better things to do than keep asking the same question when
> I get an answer and 'change email scanners' is not an answer to an AVG
> problem.


It is. May I summarize your problems? Abusing Outlook Express as a mail
client and newsreader, an installed virus scanner, and then even having it
interfere with the submission of emails, those are damn serious problems all
resulting in thing not working as intended and being impossible to diagnose.
Solve these problems first and then look if the issues still persist!