Outlook is force closing ever since installing NIS 2012

Can someone PLEASE help me?  I'm sure I'm not the only person that's having this difficulty, but ever since installing NIS 2012, my Outlook crashes between 5-10 times a day - no joke.  It's very annoying, but when I am losing half written emails & having to do them over, it's bordering on insanity! 

 

I have gone to Settings>Network>Message Protection and turned off Antivirus Scan, Anti Spam & Instant Messenger Scan, but it's still crashing.  I even tried doing the Norton Chat feature, and that person who was "helping" me wanted me to give them control of my computer, but I wasn't comfortable with that at all.

 

Any help would be appreciated.  This is driving me crazy!  Thanks!