I took a look at Comodo, and it was reporting Avast as communicating with Google at 74.125.9.115:80, 173.194.55.206:80. Those both go to Google, and are using HTML, but why avast, and not Firefox which is what I am using to connect to HTML threw.
that may not be correct.... all in/out request goes true avast webshield and comodo may see it as comming from avast

many posts here about that regarding Malwarebytes IP block … when mbam is blocking malicious urls and see it as comming from avast