Avast 6 Web Shield blocking Internet

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Had Avast v.4 and 5 running without problems on my (Win XP Pro) PC and Laptop for a long time.
Experienced problems updating to version 6 on both computers so I’ve uninstalled the old version and downloaded and installed Version 6.

Laptop: No Problems
PC: All working except the Web Shield

The Web Shield is blocking access to the Internet. Email is working.

Tried the following:

  1. Comodo Firewall – Removed all Avast entries and allowed access again as Avast requested.
  2. Uninstalled and reinstalled Avast 6.
  3. Uninstalled Avast in safe mode with the Avast uninstall utility and reinstalled again.

Unfortunately this hasn’t fixed the problem. I have now stopped the Web Shield and hope to find a fix or will try to reinstall Version 5.

Any help will be appreciated.

Sam

2

Hi Sam!

Just read this , it may help :slight_smile:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=63688.0

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I’ve done that already. Didn’t help.

Thanks

Sam

4

I have now re-installed v.5.0.594 and the Web shield is working again.
Have set the Program update to manual and will stay with v.5 as version 6
seems to have a problem with something on my PC. ???

Sam