Problem with 4.6.731 - concurrent connection limit???

Now this is very very annoying - I updated to the new Avast today (4.6.731) and now every time I go to download anything from newsgroups with Agent I get this error:

Error reported by Server: 502 concurrent connections limit in avast exceeded.

I’ve gone thru all the settings I can find in Avast to try to change this, but can’t find anything that looks like it. I use 10 concurrent streams in Agent, and I’m not going to settle for less.

Is there a way to fix this? Or do I have to go back to the previous version of Avast?

Oh man, this is bullsh*t. It totally breaks my newsreader. Completely unusable. I have to shut Avast off to read news, which is just the time you need anti-virus protection the most.

How do I go back to the previous version?

Woops! A restart cured it. Never mind. ;D

Really you should not go back to a previous version since everytime a version comes it fixes bugs and add new things on previous version. I think going back to old version would be a unwise decision. Thats the advice i can give you, maybe it can be fix, but i dont know how.

Remember: Everytime a new version comes out it fixes bugs, add new things (etc) even though it made not work (the latest update) on your computer, there’s always a way to fix it somehow.

Sometimes a new version can have bugs, going back to old version can sometimes be a better choice.

To futz: I’m glad that your problem is fixed, welcome to the forums! :slight_smile:

Yea, but it fixes the old bugs first thats all that matters. If it just some bugs it does not really matter for some people then when the next version comes out it will fix the bugs. Even if new version have bugs you not should go back at least that what i will do, unless you talking about total destrutive of new version in which you cant use the latest version then its ok and how serious is the new bugs.

Though I shall, no doubt, be flamed so be it.

But, (the famous but,) one has to consider the quality of the feedback.

Nevertheless, I want to give the fullest credit to futz for the second post.

In these days of instant online gratification … how often do we actually “read the instructions” or even follow them and give the product a second chance before we post to the world that this is a POS that should never have been given space on our hard drive?

I continue amazed at the patience, forbearance and friendliness of the most persitent contributors to this forum and to the members of the avast team who, despite amazing provocation, remain so professional in their responses.

Oh dear,

I promised myself, on my first posting here, that I would never become one of those crawling toadies that must be “avast evangelists”.

Dear Lord, mea culpa, I find I have crossed the threshold and I must now implore the powers of avast to reset my classification in this forum to newbie (though not llama please) and let me start over.

I bow to all those wonderful contributors who are “avast evangelist” for their outstanding participation … even though I prefer to avoid that classification.

Too late Alan, your in welcome to the club where you don’t have to ask to join you get press ganged ;D long may you contribute.

You can’t go back into avast versions. There is no roll-back feature and this is not avast update policy (the old versions are not official released or kept into the homepage for download).

But you can edit avast4.ini, find the section [MailScanner], add (or edit) the line IgnoreProcess.

[MailScanner]
IgnoreProcess=mybad.app,ccPxySvc.exe

Where the application name is your application for reading news (maybe Agents.exe).

Unfortunatelly this is not avast policy. New versions are released as betas, stay two weeks and then are released.
Old ones are removed. If there is a problem with the new version, it should be solved in the newest ones.
Walking ahead and not behind is the policy 8)

Now this is very very annoying - I updated to the new Avast today (4.6.731) and now every time I go to download anything from newsgroups with Agent I get this error: Code:
Error reported by Server: 502 concurrent connections limit in avast exceeded.
Just went to use my newsreader again and Avast choked again. The cure is to disable and re-enable On-Access Protection.

This bug needs to be stomped!!! Very annoying!

futz,

I assume by “On Access Protection” you mean stopping and starting again all of the avast providers. Have you tried to isolate the particular provider that manages to avoid your problem - perhaps the Intemet Mail provider which performs NNTP (newsgroup) scanning?

So you have set up one news server with max. 10 connections in Agent ?

Good plan. I’ll do that tonight and get back to you.

So you have set up one news server with max. 10 connections in Agent?
Yes.

Aaaarrrggghhhh!!! Tonight it works fine. I’ve changed nothing since it was screwing up last night.

Intermittents are the hardest to find and fix.

I don’t think there were any changes in connection management since previous version.

You can set detailed logging and send me the log file when the error occurs, to see what connection are there (see http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12234.msg103474#msg103474).