Win update problem (again sorry)

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I know I have asked this one before during the beta testing in the betaforum but today I got message from xp that there was a update available, I accepted, and it didn’t seem like to download anything at all.
I waited for half a minute and then I deceide to turn off “webshield” and then it was installed in no time,…

I am using Avast Home Edition 4.6 latest build and vps
Windows XP Pro SP2 - firewall SP2 enabled and SMC NAT firewalll from router active,… - DSL connection

Basically I haven’t changed anything in the webshield settings except for “high” and add URL *.pif?

I did NOT receive a “block sreen” from Avast! Cause I tried to access the win updated site through firefox and IE,…and it showed the requested update. I haven’t experienced any other problems with downloading an/or updating software,…except with M$ patches,…

2

Same problem here, I also had this problem with the beta and again earlier today. Disabling Web Shield solved the problem.

I’m using Outpost Firewall, on an other system running Sygate everthing works OK.

3

I just added “ashwebsv.exe” to the accept list in the Windows SP2 firewall,… I will see if this helps,…

4

Yeah, I had the same problem, when I updated my Windows XP (SP2) manuelly. But my auto-update worked perfectly. That’s really strange…

5

Are we talking about the browser-based Windows Update or the silent Windows Update service?

6

About the browser-based update…

Here again:
I wanted to update manuelly (Microsoft NET Framework, etc…). I clicked on install. Then nothing happened. Then I turned off avast! and the download began immediately.

7

I had it with both the browse-based as with the automatic update in WinXP.
I got the yellow symbol in the taskbar that an update was available but download stayed on 0%, the momend I shutdown Web Shield the download began.

8

Hmm, I just tried it and it worked perfectly… :-\

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I had it with the “silent update” really. But now I added the service off avast in the SP2 firewall,…and I will see what happens,…