I read the post about setting a proxy server in the browser in order to try to get around the incompatibility between Avast 4.6 Web Shield and ZoneAlarm, however, I cannot find anywhere in Firefox (my browser) to set a proxy server. Can anyone help? Right now I’ve just turned off Web Shield and that has solved my problems with browsing. Thanks.
click on Tools → options
On the left click on “general”
towards the bottom of that screen there is something that states “Connection” and then has a button saying “connection settings”… click that. there are the proxy settings.
I just tried this and it wasn’t working (for me that is,)
You do not have to set one within Firefox see for yourself, my settings
There is a work around posted on another thread, if you can’t get it working without it.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=11338.msg96803#msg96803
I would also suggest that you read the whole thread and do a search as this Zone Alarm issue has been discussed.