Hello Howard,
We regret for the inconvenience caused. Since you mentioned that your AVG Component is inactive, we confirmed that the AVG program is corrupted by recent update. No need to worry, we are here to help you.To get the issue fixed, we would request you to repair the AVG program and check is the Email component is active. If the issue persist, we would request you to remove previously installed program traces of (AVG 2015 or AVG 2014)from your system using AVG Remover tool and then try to reinstall AVG Protection Free.
My Free edition shows that all my devices are unknown on the computer and everything is red.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Had the same problem lately. I had to reformat my pc to solve it.