I had to manually set Win98SE for webshield

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I guess this is normal. Proxy server 127.0.0.1 port 12080. Otherwise, the webshield just doesn’t work.

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Yeah, seems normal on Windows 98\Me.
On XP\2k, this change is transparent for the user 8)

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Thanks technical. How have you been. Long time no see.

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I ship lots of oceans…
I miss the pirates… 8)

I’m becoming old, here and in the real life… Who knows the time for give up? :cry:

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On WinXP I needed to set up K-Meleon browser manaully the same as above.

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Extract from avast help file.

The provider works as a local proxy server. On NT-based operating systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/20003) the protection is completely transparent and it is usually not necessary to configure anything special. To enable the Web Shield on Windows 9x/ME operating systems, it is necessary to modify one setting in the Internet Options - in particular, the address and port of local proxy. So, if you want to use Web Shield on an older operating system, do the following:
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I think K-Meleon is not one of the default browsers…

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I set also Firefox for the manual proxy configuration with Web shield redirect blanked. Running XP. This way Firefox is set as a trusted browser with Sygate FW.

Who knows how i will run tomorrow, but today it is perfect. ;D

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If you set no port number, WebShield is just on troubleshooting state.
On other words, it’s disabled :stuck_out_tongue:

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If you set no port number, WebShield is just on troubleshooting state. On other words, it's disabled Tongue

???

What was that ?
This is the non transparent manual proxy setting I am using.
Technical, I sure can notice that I am running webShield. Both in Avast’s monitoring and in Sygate traffic log, as well as when testing with maybe eicar.
Read my threads below:
http://forums.sygate.com/vb/showthread.php?s=ebe2eaea4941950cc1e49325d46c7bbf&threadid=13034
http://forums.sygate.com/vb/showthread.php?s=ebe2eaea4941950cc1e49325d46c7bbf&threadid=12947&perpage=20&pagenumber=1

Better start explaining, cause you have already brought out a lots of confusion regarding Sygate proxy issue.

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If I did not understand you wrong, if you delete port 80 from redirected ports of WebShield, you will disable the transparency of the WebShield proxy but you should configure your browser to use:
proxy server name: localhost
proxy server port: 12080

If you do not setup your browser, I think you will ‘disable’ WebShield.
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your posts. Please, correct me if I’m wrong.

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I set also Firefox for the manual proxy configuration

You did understand very wrong, but ok I forgive you.
And this has been already discussed here many times, first by Vlk and sded, me too. The manual proxy configuration in browsers. And it is all in the link I gave you.
Specifying manual proxy still has advantages IMO over that default transparent proxy setting.

And this is also the end of this discussion.