Does all my web surfing now go through a proxy server using webshield?
I also had problems with webshield not letting pages load or hang, to correct this I uninstalled the old avast version did a reg clean and uninstalled the new version that went on top of it and did a reg clean.
then I reinstalled the latest version of avast home = clean install and no more problems, seems updating the older version somehow corrupted something , my daughters pc was the same way.
my pc is xp pro SP2 with McaFee firewall and my daughters is xp home sp2 with kerio firewall.
It seems that a clean install is needed? I now have no page hanging or not loading problems, with the current 4.6.623 version., and webshield.