@blarney77
Thanks for your insight.Avast doesn’t offer direct phone support it’s handled via a third party.
Turning off the firewall means you are protected from the firewall included in Windows.
No one should ever connect to the internet with out a firewall.
Hopefully by Mon. Avast will hone in.
bob3160,
You may have posted here often, but you apparently are a BOT or you don’t really READ the issues posted here.
Funny though, you said “Turning off the firewall means you are protected from the firewall included in Windows.”!!
Protected FROM Windows Firewall? heh heh… many think Windows Firewall is not so good, but not sure I need to be protected FROM it… BY it, perhaps.
I DO prefer Avast’s firewall protection, it has served me well in the past and better than Microsoft’s attempts at running a firewall.
Telling people to go to the Avast settings or individual programs for this issue is also totally ridiculous! It happens before anything has been run!!
This is NOT a new issue, and it was reported to them during Insider testing and I have been told by Avast to roll back to 1809 rather than deal with the problem, that is WHAT Insider testing is for! Avast has known about this a long time and it SHOULD have been dealt with before now.
Your comment of “Hopefully by Mon. Avast will hone in.” is pretty silly because they have had MONTHS to correct this. It’s still here. Not holding my breath. Might be sorry I recently re-subscribed.
I am still concerned that they either could not fix this or just plain can’t. Either way is disturbing for a company with the user base they have.
… Blarney is not always BS! …
BTW, Been using computers since 1979, Owner since 1982, PC builder since 1990, WINDOWS user Since Windows 2.0! Kinda familiar with software, Microsoft, and updates (Windows 8 is the ONLY version I have not purposely run!)
Again, thanks for your expert insight. Many of us have used the firewall supplied with the Windows OS. It’s been quite effective since Windows 7.
I’m not the only one that seems to think so. https://www.howtogeek.com/165203/why-you-dont-need-to-install-a-third-party-firewall-and-when-you-do/
I never said that it was better than the one offered by Avast. Some of us use the free version of Avast which doesn’t contain a firewall.
My statement was that the windows firewall was an alternative till Avast fixed the problem.
Problem still there. Looks like Avast is taking their sweet time in having this bug fixed. It just plain annoying to select the type of firewall on every boot up.
As I run a vpn, I sometimes get ‘An unidentified network has connected and is set to Public’.
Otherwise, when not running a vpn, no notification about the remaining network is ever seen, ever. Might be that only some users are affected by this bug, maybe both Windows Defender firewall is running as well as Avast firewall?
Windows Defender firewall is turned off here.
Those that are effected, are you running Windows 10 v1903 ???