This is mainly because 90% of users have NEVER heard of anything like PROXY SERVERS in their lives, and DON’T WANT to hear about this stuff. Displaying such BIG message boxes saying that you need to do this and that is not very popular, especially among the computer-illiterate people.

There’s a number of options in avast that you can fine-tune, if you are interested (especially on Win9x where not everything is working automatically)…

Anyway, I think this thread is becoming off-topic. Let’s focus on the freezes. :wink:

Thanks
Vlk