First off the bat, I’ve scanned in both normal and safe-mode with avast and malwarebytes, and do not have anything.
Basically, ever since the update, Web Shield is absolutely killing my bandwidth. I can’t watch a YouTube video for more than ten seconds without it having to buffer and after that, it won’t even stream and of the rest of the video.
After loads of different testing I did on my own (different routers, noise margin test, speedtests, test sockets), I had the idea to turn off Web Shield to see if that was causing the problem. The problem was solved straight and I had my regular bandwidth back.
So basically, is anyone else getting this and what the hell is going on with Web Shield avast!
What is your OS? - 7 ultimate 64 bit
Any other security software? - malwarebytes
Firewall? - Only Windows firewall on and that’s not supposed to be a problem with avast! (I heard)
First off the bat, I've scanned in both normal and [b]safe-mode with avast and malwarebytes[/b], and do not have anything.
just some info ....
Malwarebytes is not designed for safemode scanning, safe mode should only be used if normal scan does not work
It will work in safe mode, but all drivers are not loaded and therfor crippled....
Run uninstaller from above. You will directed to reboot into safe mode, click “yes”.
Reboot
Install choice from above.
Reboot and register or insert license.
Reboot.
Uninstalled, rebooted, cleared registry with CCleaner, installed avast again - still the same problem
I think I’m just going to disable Web Shield at this point. I know this solves the problem, so I see it as my only option at the moment. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update. As I said before, I’ve scanned with both normal and safe mode with avast and malwarebytes and there’s nothing. Clearly a very small problem that doesn’t affect many people, but I’m unfortunately one of them
It sounds as if there is something else going on.
Be patient as a malware expert will catch up to you.
Sorry I couldn’t help you more but there is definitely something
else going on.
None. I formatted Win 7 less than two weeks ago and I’ve only ever installed avast! and malwarebytes so a conflict of applications can’t be a problem as I’ve run these two applications side by side for years without any problems.
As said before, disabling Web Shield works fine and it’s back to normal. It’s obviously some rare bug that some people have had (I’ve seen numerous other posts about Web Shield from other people saying the same thing). I’m just going to disable web shield until an update is rolled out and hopefully it works then.