I think there is something wrong with my Avast firewall. On my PC it scans bytes in and out however on my laptop it never does anything. Is this usual?
No - assuming you are connected to the internet (browsers work, programs update etc) then that does not look right.
First thing I would do is to make sure that windows firewall is turned on (it is compatible with avast firewall) to make sure you have some software firewall protection (you are hopefully behind a router hardware firewall anyway?)
What previous security software/FW did you have on the machine before AIS, and how was it uninstalled? Did you use the manufacurers dedicated uninstaller in windows safe mode? If not, get it from eg here http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN146
and do so now.
Then you could try an avast repair - but personally I have never found it to repair anything.
I would remove and reinstall the firewall component.
(i) Control panel-uninstall-AIS-uninstall/change-change-next-uncheck FW component-reboot.
(ii) Then repeat the above but this time check FW component.
If you have ccleaner installed run it between (i) and (ii) until it finds no more registry issues (but that shouldn’t really be necessary). If you do run registry cleaner save its changes when prompted in case you need to restore
Let us know if that works.
(If the above doesn’t work then you could do a complete unintall/reinstall of AIS (with aswclear.exe (download from avast.com) run in safe mode between the two).
you’d be better off checking actual connections in the connection panel … other than that Avast uses flash player for animations (graphs etc…), make sure you got it installed (and updated) on the system where you see no apparent traffic - at graph level only.
Thanks for dropping in to help logos - this is looking beyond me!
(I don’t have flash player installed by the way - so I can’t see avast! traffic history graphs - but I can see the activity display fine - which is what Alikhan seems to be missing)
the firewall and the mail shield are the two components that have issues off and on at install time. It’s been like that since V5. say you uninstalled the fw and want it back, chances are that you won’t get it back - module won’t be running - not always the case but most of the time. Then repair won’t help, most of the time … while it does, sometimes … only the devs can help here. Otherwise >>> clean install. Yeah I know, the OP here did a clean install a short while ago :-\