Alright, I updated to Avast 6 RC 6.0.992 and I am having no issues so far. I ran the aswclear tool in safe mode after I uninstalled Avast 5 just to make sure I got everything.

I’m also running PC Tools firewall v7 but that wasn’t the issue from what I can tell.

edit: it appears PC Tools firewall v7 is also causing issues separate from the other issues I had. If I disabled the web shield in Avast 5 I could access the internet. When I went to download the latest Avast 6 RC from this link:

http://files.avast.com/files/beta/6.0.992/setup_av_free.exe

The download would freeze. I tried several times and it would freeze every single time. I then disabled PC Tools firewall v7 and I was able to complete the download. I just duplicated this again after I installed Avast 6 which is working correctly. I tried downloading that file again with PC Tools enabled and it froze. Disabled it and it completed. Now I have to find a good another decent firewall that doesn’t have issues with SP1. Maybe i’ll reinstall PC Tools to see if it fixes itself, I doubt it.