Issues with 13.6

I’m having problems with a couple of things since updating to 13.6.

• Safari has repeated problems establishing a secure connection to websites. I had to try three or four times to connect to Google to do a search. When I turned Avast off, the problem went away.

• I keep getting popup notices of the program’s existence. One for an upgrade is ok, but one after another is intrusive and annoying.

Hello,

EDIT2: We have found an issue with webshield process crashing; we will push the fix out ASAP. It is possible that the crash could be causing your issues; lets see if 13.7 will fix it.

Please what is the text in the popup?

Kind regards,
Ondrej Kolacek

Just had the secure connection issue with Safari again.

Here’s the popup. I see this frequently and I don’t know what the point of it is.

Kept getting disconnected from Facebook chat. Turned off the web shield and problem cleared.

And I just got this popup, which is uninformative and annoying.

Mail wouldn’t download new messages this morning until I turned off all the shields.

Hello,
the frequency of these popups seems to have increased in case of crashes; and from the content of the popups it seems webshield may be really crashing alot. Please can you check in Console (cmd+space, type console + enter), in the left pane select System Diagnostic Reports, and check for crashes of processes with prefix com.avast. and send them to ondrej.kolacek at avast.com? Also please if you could generate a support package (via menu → help-> bottom most option → generate support package) while mentioning your name within? Ideally after the error appears or after a web page stops working correctly? We will try to find out what is wrong.
Kind regards,
Ondrej Kolacek

Lots of crashes. First was May 3. Most recent was four minutes ago, attached.

I just had to turn off the mail shield to get Mail to work. Mail would stop retrieving and report that it was offline.

Here’s a crash report from a few minutes ago that looks different from the previous.

Thanks, we will fix this ASAP (it should hopefully be out within a week). You will probably want to turn off mail shield for the time being. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for reporting this!
Kind regards,
Ondrej Kolacek

Thank you!