Web Shield and Firefox 3.6 not acting well to-gether

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have given up on trying to have my Firefox browser work with Avast 5. I have tried various configs within Avast Web Shield,but nothing works as would be expected.
I first noticed the problem on a security forum site that I frequent every day.
When I first enter the site,every thing seems to be okay,but when I go to another page,it is not displaying the same as it would if Web Shield was DISABLED.
Secondly,after going to a NEW page,on the same site,I am no longer “logged” into the site,so naturally can.t post anything.If I try to re-log-in on same site I get a page saying “Cookie Blocked”…??? (Not So)
Under the help section,it advises on how to use the Exclusions.
I did this using all there suggestions…eg: for the whole site to be available…http://www.xxxx.com/*,but that has no effect,still the same problem.
To-day,when I came to the Avast site,with the Web Shield ENABLED,I couldn,t log in,and got the message,wrong password??? I then DISABLED Web Shield and all was well.
Does anyone have a reason why this is happening?..AND how to get it to work properly,without running it DISABLED???

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Try uninstalling and re-installing Avast.

What OS are you using? If it’s XP, I have found that Winsock XP Fix solves lots of problems with web browsers.

http://majorgeeks.com/WinSock_XP_Fix_d4372.html

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Are you using Online Armor Firewall ?

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@ sammi 1820
Did avast 5 and the previous version of firefox work with the web shield enabled ?

As it is working just fine with me and firefox 3.5.7.

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absolutely no problem here with 3.6…and the web shield. They seem to like each other so far :wink:

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Hi,
No Online Armor—Zone Alarm
O/S --Winxp
It is my understanding that the Winsock fix is not site specific,but for all sites.
I fail to see how an install/un-install is going to solve this particular problem.

DavidR,
I do not believe I ran 4.8 with the Web Shield enabled.
Thanks

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Your Core2Duo E8300/ 2GB Ram system is way faster than my XP Pro P4 2.8GHZ, 768MB RAM system and that is about the speed and capacity of most XP systems in use I believe.

Maybe a poll should be set up for people with avast! V5 and XP that have problems that gathers:

  • processor type and speed
  • RAM installed
  • MBAM installed and free or Pro version
  • Windows Defender installed
  • software firewall installed
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Whilst it may be more powerful, it really has no bearing on the question that I asked as it was about sammi’s system not mine, did his previously work with 5.0 and firefox before he updated to 3.6.

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Hi,
Well with a lot more tinkering,prodding,and trying to get to the bottom of this,I started to look very closely at my firewall,and its settings.
I added some entries from Avasts folder into programs,and started a matter of elemination of what I had added to the program entries.
I believe I have found and corrected my problem,as Firefox is now working as it should on the 2 sites I was having problems with.
The entry I added,that was not there before,and I believe was resposible for this problem was aswrundll.exe.
Thanks

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Thanks for the update, glad it is now working for you.