IE6 (on a Windows 2000 fully patched system) stalls when loading pages, especially www.avast.com
Hitting the page refresh on the menu bar generally kicks things into life. Opera 10.10 running on the same system has no such difficulties.
The problem is eliminated when Web Shield is disabled but then I lose the protection of Web Shield. 
The PC is a 700MHz Celeron based machine so it is a bit slow.
AV Pro 5.0.396
FWIW, I get frequent stalls loading IE6 pages under XP.
It has only started recently, during the avast AV 5 testing.
Haven’t been able to attribute it to any particular shield.
Turning off Script Shield, Web Shield, etc. seem to have no
effect. Can’t even state categorically that it’s avast - there
have been recent security patches to IE6 from MS also.
Another stall in IE6 happens when loading some PDF files from
web sites. When it happens, it happens repeatedly with that PDF.
IE6 becomes “Not Responding” and have to kill it.
FF 3.0.17 never hangs when loading these same PDFs. If they are
downloaded, they open and read with no problems using Acrobat
reader.
I suppose it’s past time I went to IE8.
Hardware speed is no issue here: AMD 64 X2 2Ghz, 2 GB ram (800 MHz).
Hello,
I don’t believe that avast5 supports win2000, so to me its a wonder on how you managed to install it… 
Al968
From: http://www.avast.com/en-ca/free-antivirus-download#tab2
System requirements
Processor Pentium 3, 128 MB RAM, 100 MB of free hard disk space
Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (32/64 bit)
I suppose it's past time I went to IE8.
While IE 8 is better than IE 7 and light-years more secure than IE 6, I would recommend a safer and alternative web-browser such as Firefox. If you get Firefox, also get the Ad-Block Plus plug in extension. It works great and is a nice compliment to the security of Avast.
Although I don’t use Google Chrome, I heard it is also really fast. While Avast gives you the opportunity to install Google Chrome during the install of it’s AV software, I would opt out and if you are still interested in Google Chrome get it through Google’s website.
I also like the Web of Trust plug in for all the popular browsers, which provides color coded ratings to alert users and block them from malicious web-sites. You should uninstall Site Advisor if you have it and get this plug in instead. It has been a godsend for me. (And the protection database is updated every 30 minutes!)
You can read more or get the plug in here:
WOT must be installed separately on each browser that you use.
Jack
From that same page:
Compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7
;D
Al968
And it is compatible with them … also with 2000. :
I would say:
Minimum System requirements
Processor Pentium 3, 128 MB RAM, 100 MB of free hard disk space
Microsoft Windows 2000
Processor Pentium 4 2.4GHz or faster, 512 MB RAM, 100 MB of free hard disk space
Microsoft Windows XP
Processor 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64), 1(GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit), 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
Windows 7
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/system-requirements.aspx
IE8 Features:
Increased performance
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/internet-explorer/features/increased-performance.aspx?tabid=1&catid=1
Stay safer online
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/internet-explorer/features/stay-safer-online.aspx?tabid=2&catid=1
Hi,
I’m new. I run win2k. I had Avast 5 free edition running properly on my machine. Had a crash and had to reinstall windows 2000 SP4, ie 6. Tried to reinstall Avast 5 but it wanted a number of DLLs. When I downloaded them it installed but would not run. I’ve looked on the Avast website but I can’t seem to find any information about what windows updates I need to install inoder to make it compatible. Does anyone know?
Plain Win2000 SP4 is not enough. You need install additionally Rollup1. With Rollup1 installed you probably should repeat avast5 installation. May be avast reinstallation can be replaced by instasllation of the latest vc2008sp1 with ATL security update but I’m not sure that this will be enough.