Hi, I have avast4 on a win98 machine. I use Firefox for my browser.
I read the faq on enabling webshield with win98. Altered my ini file,
(UpstreamProxyHost=proxy.familysafeviewing.net UpstreamProxyPort=80), saved the file, and reset the proxy settings in Firefox. (http proxy: localhost port 12080)
Having done this, and stopped and restarted the webshield provider at least twice, I am unable to connect to the internet at all.
Any ideas as to how to make this work?
I also have the problem of having to have started my browser before avast can download updates. If I start my email program, or just hook up to the internet, I always get an error. If I start my browser first, then there is no problem. I am required to login to my isp every time I start my browser. I am wondering if there is a connection between the two problems.
By the way, having read another post. I completely restarted the whole computer, not just the webshield provider, and it didn’t make any difference.
Elaine
Apparently when avast downloads the updates you are not yet logged into your ISP so the communication fails. If you have to login before the internet works I don’t know how to overcome this except preparing some kind of automatic login script, which would be then run during your startup process.
Do you see the login page, when you have WebShield configured as proxy? Can you login? Can you try to disable the proxy and login normaly, then reenable it - to check if it is just the login operation that fails via WebShield?
I do not see the log in page when I set up the web shield settings.
When I have the isp proxy information in the http section, I rarely see the sign in sheet. My browser remembers the login and does it automatically.
When I configure the browser with the localhost 12080, it simply goes nowhere. I get a pop up box saying This document contains no data.
I cannot disable the proxy. We chose one intentionally since we have several teenagers in the house that we are trying to protect.
Are you using a local proxy… you can’t configure your browser to use WebShield port but your own proxy port.
Into WebShield configuration you’ll put the proxy port to be monitored and uncheck the option ‘ignore local communication’.
It’s late here and I’m on Linux, a very small monitor resolution, maybe I need to sleep 
This is not a local proxy. It is an isp proxy that I dial up into. I checked again this morning, and IF I start my computer and hook up with, say outlook express, then the proxy settings in the avast basic settings will not work. Once I start my web browser, which has the master login information for http proxy, then the same setting in the avast basic settings will work. I think if I could figure out a way to put in my signon information as well as my regular password, it would work. otherwise I’ll just get by without the web shield, and always start my browser first.
I know. Upgrading to XP will solve this. My daughter has it with the same isp and there is no problem. There is a switch to check in hers that allows everything to work fine. But I don’t have XP.
Thanks for scratching your heads over this one.
Elaine
It should be pretty easy to prepare a script that will log you in…if it is done via HTTP.
I would be willing to try it if you can walk me through how to apply it. It is only an http proxy.