WebShield OFF => Site browsed
WebShield ON => Site blocked with the next error page
The page cannot be displayed
There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.
Please try the following:
* Click the Refresh button, or try again later.
* Open the Web site home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
* If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please contact the Web site administrator by using the e-mail address or phone number listed on the Web site home page.
HTTP 504 - Gateway timeout
avast! Web Proxy
When the server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, contacted the upstream content server, it did not receive a timely response.
I read elsewhere on here from Technical to try changing the Avast proxy setting from “Auto-detect” to “No proxy” (if not connected to the internet via a proxy).
Double click the avast icon on your desktop > menu > settings > update (basic) > details > proxy > choose direct connect (no proxy).
That fixed the problem for me.
What is your firewall? If you are using something like Sygate or Kerio, you can log all of the internet traffic and see what is being blocked that is preventing site display by running with and without webshield.
I was okay until this morning… now I can’t get into hotmail.
If I disable zone alarm and avast web shield I still can’t get into hotmail but now I get the standard “page cannot be displayed” instead of the avast web shield version.
I think that with “automatic settings” Avast decide hitself if there is a proxy or not, and “no proxy” force Avast to ignore any proxy even if it detects one !
In my Avast version, the complete label text is “Automatic detection (use internet explorer settings)”, so Avast might use them if there are some, and decide itself if not (?)
I also had this behaviour. Sometimes certain web sites stop being accessible. I had it with OpenBC.com and an other site which I don’t remember. Weird enough: I even could not ping the site, the IP was completely blocked. When I closed Avast and restarted it, everything was fine again.
(It was not OpenBCs fault, because I checked their server from another PC and found that it was working fine, it was just my own PC which couldn’t access it.)
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes.
Solutions for me:
close and restart of avast
wait some minutes, it tends to fix itself after a while
Looks like a bug to me
Otherwise its a fine piece of software, do like it.
(or with me ;D)
