Avast causing "503 Service Unavailable" errors in Chrome

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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This has been driving me mad since I resintalled Avast.

Certain web page links result in a 503 service unavailable error which I was initially blaming my connection/ISP for.

I noticed that in most cases the link works fine in Firefox so reinstalled Chrome which didnt help.

I have now noticed that if I ‘disable all shields’ in Avast the pages load fine.

I get this on any pages it seems that do some sort of redirect.
for example I cant download anything from Sourceforge.
eg http://sourceforge.net/projects/ps3mediaserver/files/latest/download
with “shields off” i get redirected to the download with them “on” its a 503 error

another example is I cant log into my wordpress site using www.mydomain.com/wp-admin like I usually do. Just gives 503 service unavailable in chrome

How can I fix this there seems much less settings available in this latest Avast than older versions?

Avast Free version 2014.9.0.2006
Windows 7 64 bit

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Have you tried to disable Avast Online Security from the Chrome tools menu? You are still protected by the Web shield of course. :slight_smile:

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Just checked and Avast Online Security is already disabled

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Still got this problem!

Ive updated top the latest avast version and thought maybe it had fixed the problem but no its still the same.

Pages that use a redirect eg logins and file downloads are returning a 503 error unless I disable ALL shields.

Is there no solution to this? I really dont want to ditch Avast its been so good all these years but right now Im turning the shields all the time which is not good.