I play an online game by Battle.net called warcraft II: The frozen throne. I can join other peoples games, but i cannot host. I think this may have something to do with avasts web shield. What should i do? Even turning it off doesn’t help.
If turning it off doesn’t help then it is unlikely that that is the problem.
avast! doesn’t block, it isn’t a firewall, it monitors an alerts to any detected infection but doesn’t block. avast wouldn’t know if you were playing or hosting to it there is no difference other than there is likely to be more activity on your system, which may be monitored by standard shield also.
Is the avast icon rotating at this time ?
What exactly happens when you attempt to host (try to be as detailed as possible) ?
Sorry I’m not a gamer so I don’t speak from experience so hopefully someone will understand the on-line gaming issues.
What is your firewall, might that be blocking your hosting, have you checked its logs ?
Welcome to the Forum Eatatnine 
Your computer besicaly acts as a server to which other computer can connect to.
Do you have windows firewall ?
Was there a problem before you installed Avast ?
Thanks
Al968
I know it acts as a server, that is what a host does, no different from a web host.
What I was after is what he has to initiate to run as a host, connections to establish, what ports used, etc. and if there are any errors or if it just hangs, etc.
Are you running behind a router or directly connected to the Internet?
Oh well, I know it uses port 6112, and when i host, i can make the game, but noone can join, i just sit there. My friend when he tried to join said that the error said is that the game i created is not found. I dont think i have another running firewall either.
I am directly conneceted to the internet.
The web shield only monitors port 80, that is why disabling it had no effect. Though I don’t think it would have an effect based on avast doesn’t block but alert, you could try disabling the Network Shield and let us know if that has any effect.
Obviously the folder exists ?
If so check the permissions of that folder if everyone doesn’t have read permission (or write permission if that is a requirement game logs, unlikely though) for that folder, etc. then that might result in this kind of error.
By default. You can add additional ports to be scanned. Hope it helps…
Eatatnite isn’t trying to get web shied to scan the content but the reverse, Eatatnite is trying to find why something might be blocking his hosting an on-line game.