AVG add-in for Outlook 2013

Question

I'm running Outlook 2013 under Windows 8.1. I am also running AVG Internet Security 2015 (purchased version, not the free anti-virus one). I have enabled the AVG add-in. The first time I started Outlook after installing AVG, I noticed that the AVG group
did not appear in the ribbon. So, I clicked on "File" in Outlook and then on "Manage Add-ins". It listed the AVG add-in as being disabled because it caused Outlook to start slowly. So I clicked on the "Always enable this add-in".
That brought back the AVG group in the ribbon. Until the next time I started Outlook. Once again, the AVG group was gone. So, I went back to "Manage Add-ins". It still shows up in the "Disabled Add-ins" list, but it's different than the
other disabled add-ins. It says "This add-in caused Outlook to start slowly. It wasn't disabled because it's in the always enabled list." All the other disabled add-ins have a button for "Always enable this add-in", but the one for AVG
has a button that says "Disable this add-in". Which implies that it is currently enabled. The interesting thing is that if I click on "Disable this add-in", close the dialog, then bring it up again, and click on "always enable",
then the AVG group re-appears. Until I restart Outlook. So, although Outlook claims that this add-in is in the "always enable" list, it's not honoring it. It's disabling it anyway.
Yes, I've already contacted AVG. After a mindless chat with lots of canned answers, I finally ended up where I knew I was headed: "Uninstall AVG and re-install it." Of course, I had already done that, to no avail. But it doesn't seem like an AVG problem
anyway, it seems like an Outlook problem. And, yes, I have done a Repair operation on Office 2013.

Answer 1

I have other add-ins, but nine of them are disabled and four others are marked as "inactive". The AVG add-in is the only one that is currently active, but only because I forced it to be. But it doesn't stay that way; if I try again in a little
while it will be gone. Outlook claims that the plug-in was causing Outlook to start slowly, but it then says that the plug-in took 0.156 seconds to load. I can wait for 0.156 seconds. I like the plug-in because it gives me the chance to mark a message a spam
that got by the anti-spam filter, plus other options for dealing with spam.
I can't believe that Microsoft recommends using anti-virus addins. Does Outlook do any virus scanning of incoming messages? I doubt it. "Very little benefit"? Are you kidding me?
And you say that after three times of slow loading Outlook wiill disable and add-in? Even I've told it "Always enable this add-in"? Outlook just ignores my request?
This is either lousy logic or a bug.