After updated my avast! free to latest version i get a yellow ‘!’ mark on the network connection tray icon whenever connected to internet. The ! mark stays for less than one minute. Also there is frequent server not found and i need to reload almost every page to appear after the update. Downloading speed using browser also reduced significantly.
But downloads like program updates such as windows update seems not affected that much. Is it a common problem…?


windows 7 ultimate 32 bit,
windows firewall,
windows defender real time, Firefox 6.0.2

I’ve had a problem with the Avast! auto boot/start-up update just now, got the red update pop up, which I see regularly since my Internet connection drops regularly with the Homegroup being changed from private home to unidentified public randomly all the time!

The difference this time is that while my internet my have been cut at time original time for this type of homegroup identifying issue, after I checked internet is fine and connected, Avast! still is not able to update, which hasn’t happened before.

I opened Avast! and try to manually update both definitions & the program, but after they try I quickly get a message “Last encounter error: The package is broken. Time taken: 2s” for both kinds of updates.

This may or not relate to OP’s problem, but is Avast! down ATM or something?

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=84323.0

Thanks zfactor…,
ur problem is related to wi-fi. So…now it seems that the problem exists for all kind of internet connections…, hopes it will be fixed soon…

I ticked the Check box for ‘scan traffic from well known browser process only’ and the problem has gone. If this option is not selected my downloading speed is reduced by 1/3 rd…!!! ???

Anything new from Vlk regarding this problem…??