2014 version has problems - net blocked or slow - no it is not about else
not about windows
not about SP
not about etc
for a while till (like 8 months):
lately it was weird about avast
it was working fast reliable trustable in past
1st: then it began to say “found” in everything
2nd: began to be very SLOW
3rd: acting weird
4th: completely or unacceptably blocking network connection in the name of “PROTECTING”
what i thought was it should be an ordinary mistake and would be fixed at next update
practise: i close avast protection to be able to use network.
(also someone i advised to use avast experienced worser, he lost net completely, we uninstalled avast, installed old version and closed auto program updates so all was ok, he was using same version of avast on a windows 7 32bit machine)
regards
Adding some more issues noticed about 2014 update
(not only about 2014.9.0.2011! i was thinking problem is about that specific update, but after some observation, many things seem to be related to 2014 version)
system slow: generally, disabling Avast shields temp./ perman. fixes this.
IE (8.x) crashes: tried to disable Avast plugin, disabled shields, not worked so far, it still crashes, i dont use IE normally so i didnt mess with it more.
Firefox (version 22) hangs on: when you click to Firefox, nothing shows up, but in task manager you can see it is working, disabling avast plug-in in Firefox fixes this (disabling shields doesnt help), i uninstalled Avast!, reinstalled but didnt allow installation for browser plugins.