Hi… This evening I decided I’d like to reinstall Avast. I’d moved away from Avast more than a year ago because I became frustrated at not being able to resolve a problem whereby Avast prevented me from browsing the internet. Numorous good natured folk offered me various explanations, mostly blaming everything but Avast. Eventually I uninstalled it, switched to a rival product and immediately my problems went away. I have missed certain aspects of the protection Avast offers which is why I have returned to it. And yet sure enough as soon as the installation is completed etc… I’m unable to browse the internet. Just to get to this forum I’ve had to right-click the toolbar icon and disable shields for an hour.
Before the kind folk on this forum leap to insist that there are numorous references to other posts here with guidance to assist me, I’d like to point out that I’ve already spent almost an hour looking for a simple explanation and possible solution. Perhaps some might consider me impatient but I am unprepared to continue fishing for a fix.
So… does anyone actually know why it is that having installed Avast I am unable to even get to my regular google.co.uk homepage without first disabling the shields? If someone really does know, would they be kind enough to tell me howto work around it?