I am having ‘issues’ with AVAST! Free using the same PORT as my dial up connection. I am getting booted offline, and I have done everything. Seems that if I disable AVAST! I can connect and have no issues, until it turns back on. I don’t want to be online with NO protection.
Is there anything I can do, and what is the issue here, why is it disconnecting me? I have talked to my ISP. He said, it is using PORT 80, and that is my connection PORT.
Any tweaks I can do? I already did a couple but still not quite there yet:
1- I changed update settings from Port from 80 to 127.0.0.1
2- Changed “connect using IE settings” to DIRECT CONNECTION NO PROXY.
I am not sure what has changed, because I am on a dial up connection. No Proxy. But seems like the last two Program Version updates, have had something to do with this. ???
I hope one of you have a solution. I really did enjoy AVAST Free, but I need to stay connected… ???
Windows XP PROF SP3
IE 7/ FF 3.6.13
Secunia
PC Tools FW
AVAST 5.1.889
Shelty, sorry for your troubles. It seems you or your ISP are somewhat confused. sorry.
Anyway, I think this might be a problem with the PC Tools Firewall. Have you seen a popup in from the Firewall notifying you about avast? Avast needs both incoming and outgoing traffic to be allowed in the firewall (the processes that does that in avast is called avastsvc.exe). Please try to look it up in the PC Tool Firewall application list, if it is there and check if the permissions there permit this process to both accept connections and connect to internet.
Hello Lukor, and thank you for the reply. I have had no pop up from the FW. I did find:
AvastUpdater.exe
I just added that, and never had any problems until this last update. I will try and see if this works.
Thank you!
OK, EDIT! I found avastsvc.exe and it is already in the FW, and it is already set to allow in and out. Nothing to change there. Any thoughts???
Just wanted to add, if I dissable AVAST shields for 10 minutes, I have no problems. I can stay connected. But when AVAST is enabled again, I will lose my connection. Any thoughts??
I will keep you posted. Also, AVAST was already allowed in the FW. Both in and out. No pop ups, no problems there. All has been working and getting along fine, until the 5.1.889 update.
OK, no answers yet? ??? At least respond, so I know someone is reading it. Otherwise, I will have to look for another AV. I sure do like this AVAST! But I gotta stay connected.
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