Avast 4.7 Pro and Zonelab Pro

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I am a longtime user of avast and couldn’t miss it. In order to get a firewall I am trying out Zonelab Pro. Now, I get the feeling, that these two products don’t get along happily. My question ist:

  1. How do I configure Avast 4 Pro to get the most out of it
  2. what features from Zonelabs are useful together with Avast.

I do thank you very much for any tips you can give me.

cheers, wal

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http://www.avast.com/eng/webshield_issues.html

  • ZONE ALARM - AVAST Web Shield compatibility dialogue - Install/Update Question - YES or NO

If you are using ZoneAlarm Free you should click NO, because privacy features are not present in ZoneAlarm Free this will not turn off web shield transparent mode proxy.
Use a text editor and edit the avast4.ini file, the default installation location is C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\avast4.ini (I would advise you copy avast4.ini before editing it, just in case).
Locate the line containing ZoneAlarmCompatibility= and delete that line. Save the edited avast4.ini file.

If you are using ZoneAlarm Pro and Privacy Control in ZoneAlarm is set to High and if you click YES in avast compatibility dialogue box the transparent mode proxy in web shield will be turned off you have to manually configure browser to access internet. To manually configure your browser watch instructional video

For IE - broadband users: - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for IE
For IE - dialup users - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for IE (Dial-up)
For Firefox users - Tutorial - Web Shield Proxy Set-up for Firefox

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Wal,

I use ZAP (older ver. 4.5.594) along with Avast 4.7.844 with no problems. I did set up a proxy server manually as David outlined above.