When turning on the firewall i cant access certain sites

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Ever since the update of last week friday(i think it was friday) i cant seem to get to certain sites on both chrome and firefox when i have the web shield running.

Especially http://www.minecraftforum.net which is the official minecraft forum so dont know why it would give me an “Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset.” 19 out of the 20 times i try to connect to it when ever i have webshield on.

I checked the settings everywhere in avast to see if the link was anywhere to be found but no where so im a bit curious as to why its being blocked when ever i turn that shield on.

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Your link works fine here but im not using Chrome or Firefox, also your title states the firewall but your post mentions the webshield ! which one are we talking about ?

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Both firewall and webshield cause it to behave this way as i have to turn them both off before it works as turning 1 or the other off doesnt seem to change it at all.

And it works fine on my other pc as well which is a 1 week old copy of my normal pc

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No problem accessing the site with firefox 13.0.1.

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I know thats just the thing it only seems to happen on my main pc as my others don’t get it at all either yet i checked everywhere and i cant find anything that would suggest it should get blocked yet it does

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i have been having this problem too, however avast will still scan everything not to do with the forums which i’m sure are pretty safe so i added it to the exclusions list for the web-shield and voila i could connect easily.

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is it avast firewall?

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its both actually i have to turn both the firewall and web shield off or else it just wont let me connect to that site and if i turn 1 of the 2 off it still wont let me

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Hello, Are you sure its just the site and not a thread on the site? one of the threads you are looking at must have a virus on or something what Avast’s Firewall doesn’t like, Also check your Internet Connection… the website may be blocked on your Router.
Thanks.
Chris A

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Was it OK when you disabled the firewall?Try using “low” setting in firewall and add an exception

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Its all fine when ever i turn it off as i said before in the op as well.

As for setting it to low well its already on that

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I have been getting this error for several weeks - since I first starting using Avast. It’s random for me though. Maybe happens once an hour or so and it happens on ALL sites, but my email still works, so I know there is a connection still. To enable my web browsing again, I have to go to Avast Shields Control and I disable ALL shields for 10 minutes. Once I do that, IMMEDIATELY all web browsing works again, for about an hour or so when it does it again.

It’s a bit frustrating!