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Hmm. Another problem.
I don’t use FTP quite as often as I use email, so I’m making an assumption here that this problem is similarly due to the use of a self-signed certificate, probably from the same update to Avast! that caused the email problem.
I have a couple web sites that I access via Secure FTP, and I was not able to access them until I disabled (all, but maybe only one was necessary) the Avast! shields. Once disabled, I connected fine, so the web site and the FTP program seem to be absolved from responsibility. As above, Windows 7, Windows Firewall enabled, and Avast! is the only other security software.
This is much more problematical than the email issue; I don’t particularly need an email shield since my email programs are configured not to run scripts, or are incapable of running scripts. But network or web shields are very important, and I don’t even like to disable them for testing.