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Alright, I’ve found some interesting test results…
After running a test (namely chrome://net-internals/#tests) on an affected URL (http://www.youtube.com/) with and without the Web Shield on I got some curious results:
WITH WEB SHIELD ON
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Don’t use any proxy - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET (-101) - 42007ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Use system proxy settings - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET (-101) - 44296ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Use Firefox’s proxy settings - ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-6) - 1ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Auto-detect proxy settings - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET (-101) - 44266ms
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PASS - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Don’t use any proxy + Disable IPv6 host resolving - 481ms
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PASS - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Use system proxy settings + Disable IPv6 host resolving- 2845ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Use Firefox’s proxy settings + Disable IPv6 host resolving - ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-6) - 2ms
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PASS - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Auto-detect proxy settings + Disable IPv6 host resolving - 2770ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Don’t use any proxy + Probe for IPv6 host resolving - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET (-101) - 42005ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Use system proxy settings + Probe for IPv6 host resolving - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET (-101) - 44326ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Use Firefox’s proxy settings + Probe for IPv6 host resolving - ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-6) - 4ms
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FAIL - Fetch http://www.youtube.com/ - Auto-detect proxy settings + Probe for IPv6 host resolving - ERR_CONNECTION_RESET (-101) - 44261ms
WITH WEB SHIELD OFF
With the Web Shield on, all connections fail except when IPv6 host resolving is disabled!
Avast devs, please fix this!