Prior to Avast, there were some sites I was downloading with the AV off because I consider them safe, and the drag of an AV was serious.
Three of them were a problem even without an AV. Now, with Avast, sometimes I turn it off, but mostly I suffer the consequences (I go down an index and use Shift/left-click to kick out items as new pages) - some stuff instead of taking forever just times out.
I’d like to exclude the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk), eBay (ALL of eBay.com and eBay.co.uk and eBay.de), and my newspaper. If I can figure out what to type under exclusions for the first two, I can figure out the third.
All other sites either aren’t seriously slowed or are the sites I want scanned.
In the WebShield settings, exclude the URLs to be scanned.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click details button, choose webshield at left and the customize button.
I wouldn’t consider any site 100% safe, it isn’t just that site that could bite you in the rear, just being on-line with your trousers protection down is just asking for trouble.
You can do as suggested by Tech, but I would have to consider that treating a symptom and not the problem, why they are very slow when using the Web Shield. I’m on dial-up so it doesn’t come much slower to start with and I use the various ebay sites, mainly ebay.co.uk and I see little difference with or without the web shield disabled (effectively the same as web shield exclusion, but everything not being scanned).
The problem is these sites are heavily loaded with media and this slows lots of things to a crawl on dial-up with or without AV scanning. What is your connection method, dial-up or broadband ?
What browser are you using ?
Firefox with NoScript and particularly AdBlock Plus help up to a point by not automatically loading flash, etc.
I don’t see any “details” to click on. There’s ‘Program Settings’, and I tried going into exclusions and adding the bbc site between the <>, but didn’t work, even with reboot.
What seems to stop your adblocker blocking flash ?
NoScript blocks flash as a normal part of its process unless you allow it.
The web shield shouldn’t block or interfere with your adblocker unless that adblocker (which is ?) uses a proxy to filter ads ?
In which case you would need to integrate it with the web shield proxy.
But when on, it DOES block SuperAdBlocker, which inceases the amount of material being downloaded - including hte accursed Flash which I don’t want. (On 56k - 44k in practice - Flash is NOT wanted.)
So looks like I’ll be turning Avast off for those 3 sites.
The more information you give us the easier it is for us to help you.
Doesn’t do anything, really doesn’t help us, e.g. what doesn’t do anything ?
If you are referring to the Exceptions in the web shield, then exactly what did you enter ?
But when ‘what’ is on (I can only assume you mean the web shield) ?
However, avast ‘doesn’t block’ it isn’t a firewall it scans and alerts to infection it doesn’t block, so we really need more information. Especially as I asked does the adblocker use a proxy and if so what as this could be a conflict between two proxies.
We still don’t know what browser you are using, we ask questions to gather information so we can offer advice/suggestions. For instance if you have firefox then superadblocker could be redundant as you can use NoScript (which blocks flash as I have said) and AdBlocker Plus. Both of which are integrated into firefox as add-ons and don’t require any proxy and work alongside the web shield.
