Avast 2014 - Kills browsing, shields doesn't work and crashes

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Another week, another huge bug in Avast 2014…
This is getting old real fast, so tired of Avast 2014 and the huge amount of bugs.

Disabled all shields today, because I was having issues contacting a Lync server, because I know how many issues Avast 2014 has caused. This time it wasn’t Avast, but a server issue.

But when I turn back on the shields, I can’t access any websites. So I turn off all shields and it works again. sigh

I then enable all shields and try to disable all shields one at the time, to figure out what’s causing the problem (oh boy how I love wasting my time, hunting bugs for Avast). I disable (or did i…) web shield and it doesn’t help. The UI says it’s disabled, but the configuration page is not, what the beeepp. So I disable File system shield and now my internet works and at the same time i try to disable … or enable web shield again, but now the UI crashes. Now I’m stuck with a non-responsive UI, which I can’t kill and I can’t access new pages again, what a disaster.

http://i.imgur.com/WbN40uU.jpg

I had to kill Avast via process explorer and now running with web shield off, I think… because now I have internet. But I can’t really be sure, because settings says it on, but Avast claims one shield is disabled and I can’t enable it. ::slight_smile:

http://i.imgur.com/R8u667C.jpg

Running beta build 2014.9.0.2007 and beta def 131107-2

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I can also confirm that the Avast! 2014 Web Shields dork up the Microsoft Lync 2010 client.

When web shields are running, incoming calls blip for a second and then die. Outgoing calls including joining conferences freeze for about 10 seconds and then eventually go through.

I have turned off Web Shields and won’t turn it back on until I have some sort of idea that Avast! has addressed this issue.

I also suspect this new antivirus software version was interfering with my BlackBerry Link software communications over the network to my BlackBerry 10 devices, because the second I turned off Web Shields BlackBerry Link prompted me to connect to my device over WiFi which it had been having some trouble doing.