Vista=bad

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Well, I hate vista. My wife just bought a new computer with vista and we put avast on as virus protection and now her browser will not open any web pages. Avast updates and we show she is connected to the internet. We uninstalled avast and reloaded it just to be sure even though we new she had avast 4.7 and no change. Internet works fine without avast or if we disable avast. The machine comes ready for McAffee so I have thought about uninstalling that. To ad to the frustration vista looks different and finding my way around is frustratingly slow.

Any one have any ideas?

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That clearly isn’t the case other there would be much more activity on the forums re vista and avast.

For sure you would need to remove the existing McAfee AV first before installing avast.

As far as the browser not opening any pages, this sounds like the Web Shield being blocked.

What is your firewall ?
Does it allow ashWebSv.exe internet access ?

  • If it does delete the entry for it and do a reconnect to the internet, this will force the firewall to ask permission again.

If you terminate the Web Shield, are you able to connect ?
If so this tends to point towards blocking by the firewall.

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Thread title was in jest of my situation.

I am looking for the firewall info and or web shield but I don’t know a lot about computers and vista is new to me. I need to figure this out before I upgrade to vista.

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Unfortunately people just reading the Topic lists (seeking help or just browsing the forums) don’t see that, I think it best to have a meaningful title that represents the problem, I guess its the faust in your nickname that does it ;D

The firewall is either a part of McAfee if it is a security suite of programs or Vista firewall. I haven’t used either so I will not be of much help in that regard.

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your right!! I didn’t mean to give avast bad pr. I have been infanatly more happy with avast than I have been with microsoft.

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I think it came down to a firewall issue.

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The Vista or McAfee firewall?

Theoretically the Vista Firewall shouldn’t block anything outbound unless a process-specific rule is written by the user.