Ok, this is a new thing which only happens on my new Dell laptop with Windows Vista on it. Didn’t have it with the old one which is an XP system.
At home, with the new Vista laptop, I can send/receive email, no problem with https, even BT download is fine, just cannot display http pages.
No problem at other places. So what’s the difference? Well back home I have a broadband lan, but for internet access, I have to input username/password on the ISP’s authorization client, which is a product of this company:
In other places where I don’t need to go through this process, there’s no problem. XP system also no problem with this process.
After I click “Stop On-Access Protection” in Avast, problem resolved. So now whenever I go online at home with the new laptop, I have to first turn off Avast.
it is probably only the WebShield provider, that is causing you problems. I am sure, terminating just this shield would be sufficient as a work around - so you can have the rest of avast! protection active.
Can you try to terminate the WebShield provider, make the login into the client and then start the provider again (now in the environment, where the net access is already established). Any change?
Secondly, you can try to configure the browser to use the WebShield as it’s proxy by setting the HTTP proxy to: 127.0.0.1, and port: 12080. By this you are not using the auto-redirect feature, that might also be something your ISP client does not support.
Stopping the webshield only does indeed solve the problem, so that I don’t have to turn off everything, while setting the proxy got the prompt “proxy connection refused”.
Hmm, that somewhat strange. When you start the WebShield ( remember, when the proxy is set, WebShield must be always started ), does the provider status shows: “The provider is currently running” ?
Yeah, your post reminds me that yesterday when I looked at it, the webshield actually said “waiting for a subsystem to start” even after I resumed it.
So just now I rebooted the system, made sure that the webshield is running, set the proxy, and got the “connection reset” prompt. I reset the proxy back to direct connection (no proxy), no http; I paused the webshield, same thing. Only after I terminate the webshield, I can access http again.