I seem to not to be able to opens forums that I could before installing Avast.
I also now have difficulty downloading E Books all these seem to have come from the fact I have installed Avast. Well thats what I am thinking maybe there is a fix to the setup I can change as it was loaded with the standard defaults. ???
I am using XP Pro and not other firewalls or program I can find that could be causing this…
Thanks in advance 
Can you give any examples of the forums ?
Do you have to logon before access is granted or does it use cookies ?
What is your browser and your firewall ?
If ZA is it the Pro version ?
avast doesn’t block (it isn’t a firewall) rather it scans content and if found will sound an alert pop-up an interactive screen, you decide the action and not avast. How do you download these ebooks and do you use a download manager ?