Yes, that may well be the case. However, this topic is like an over and above the usual suspects checks which would have been suggested, firewall blocking the web shield or another security application or remnants of previous AVs.
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I am not comfortable messing with the registry either. So far, I am in limbo with my issues. Nice fix, but only if one is comfortable with messing with the registry. not me. :-\
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Confirming this FIXED my web shield “blocking everything-HTTP problem”!
I already had the keys in my registry set to %WINDIR%\Temp and %WINDIR%\tmp but it looks like AVAST doesn’t like that path, even if it is valid… Changed this to %SystemDir%\Temp and it fixed it instantly!
This is weird though because I have this WIndows 7 installation since December and AVAST never complained about, in my case, problem started with the 6.0.1125 upgrade!