Dear Avast Community members,
I have been using Avast free Antivirus Program version 26.4.10932g (build 26.4.10932.983) and Installer version 26.4.10843.0 for last few months without any issues and just about 4-5 days ago popular websites like Youtube, Google accounts page and a few others failed to work in all browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox) giving errors like This site cannot provide secure connection, Site provided invalid response, Connection closed unexpectedly, you’are offline, etc. After trying fixes recommended on the internet and doing good amount of troubleshoting it narrowed down to disabling of HTTPS scanning in the Web Guard of Avast Free Antivirus. I also found that it’s enabled by default and not sure about it’s status few days ago when sites started giving these errors recently. While I don’t prefer to turn it off but at the same time I also prefer that these most commonly used websites work without any issues. Please suggest if there is an alternate fix for this. While I understand the risk of turning it off, how can I continue accessing these websites. Thank you all in advance for your help and guidance.