Unable to autoupdate - Comodo related(?) [Resolved - rejoice!]

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello!

I decided to change my firewall today and after some research I installed Comodo.

After this I can not seem to get the autoupdate function of avast! to work properly. It says the connection times out. I am able to manually update the VPS just fine.

Initially I tried enabling access to aswUpdSv.exe and other such executive files. It didn’t help, but after some poking around in this very forum I came across this thread:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=21627.0
After adding the avast.setup to the list of files that are allowed access I figured all should be well, but the problem persists.

Does anyone have any suggestions on additional steps to take, or better yet, an actual solution?

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

EDIT/UPDATE: It turns out that it was svchost that was being blocked. All is well now! Move along.

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Although you have solved, just to point you to the right direction, into the firewall settings, the following programs should be allowed to connect:

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashWebSv.exe (avast! Web Scanner) (allow server rights; access to ports 80, 443; accept connections from localhost on ports 12080)
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashMaiSv.exe (avast! e-Mail Scanner Service) (allow email rights: outgoing on ports 110, 25 and 119; accept connections from localhost on ports 12110, 12025, 12119)
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\Setup\avast.setup (avast! Update executable)

Don’t need rights to connect:
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe (avast! antivirus service)
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashUpdSv.exe (avast! Update Service)