Web Shield not showing activity

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Avast 5.0.396
win xp sp3
Privatefirewall

The Web Shield is supposed to be running but shows absolutely no activity while the Network Shield does - so I’m wondering if the Web Shield is actually working ???

Is there any way to check ?

I have tried disabling the firewall, tried stopping and starting the shields but still nothing.

I’m not bothered about the fact that it is not showing any activity but I want to know if it is actually working…

Everything else works fine.

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if it doesn’t show any activity, it may be turned on but it’s not working… weird. What browser are you using ?

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I'm wondering if the Web Shield is actually working Huh

Is there any way to check ?

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

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@ logos : I’m using k-meleon (and I won’t change !).

@ HA Nut : when I tried to download the eicar.com file the File System Shield blocked it.

If I check the services in Process Hacker these are running :

avast! Antivirus
avast! Mail Scanner
avast! Web Scanner

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OK this all confirms what I thought in the first place, you’re running an unsupported browser.
ps: Is K-meleon a Windows version of Konqueror ?

edit: OK I googled it and it’s not, it’s based off of Firefox… strange web shield doesn’t support it…

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K-meleon huh ? Maybe this topic can help :

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=48779.msg411809#msg411809

This seems to be the solution :

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=48779.msg411841#msg411841

Greetz, Red.

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Hello mhf,

I use K-meleon too, my default browser.

just follow the scott’s advise (1st. link by rednose), it will do the trick.
of-course unlike avast4, avast5 use the new ini file, webshield.ini, located under all users profile folder,
for example on my win xp it is at “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Alwil Software\Avast5”

2nd. link of rednose, also works, and you don’t have to change the .ini, but it’s slow down KM (at least for me).

HTH

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Thanks all for the help - that worked ! :slight_smile:

I tried the proxy way for now and all’s well - I’ll try the .ini file way later to see what happens. That might be a better solution for me as I sometimes use a proxy for other things (e.g. JonDo) and you can’t run two proxies together can you …

Thanks again !!!