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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: glnz on October 06, 2018, 03:47:30 AM

Title: Avast blocks dnscrypt-proxy and all internet connections
Post by: glnz on October 06, 2018, 03:47:30 AM

    

I’ve had problems with internet connections the last 10 days when I reboot my Win 7 Pro 64-bit machine, which has Simple DNSCrypt and so of course the dnscrypt-proxy service and process.  (See the stupendous article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/ (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/)  .)

 Upon the most recent reboot with no internet connection, I saw that I had the Event Viewer Error “The DNSCrypt client proxy service failed to start due to the following error:  The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.”

Upon starting the dnscrypt-proxy service manually, I was suddenly connected.

Suspecting my Avast Free AV, I “excluded” the entire dnscrypt-proxy folder.  So far, so good - no internet connection problems on reboot.    My Avast Free is version 18.6.2349 (build 18.6.3983.371).

So - Avast  - can you please maybe decide to play nice with dnscrypt-proxy service? ???

Thanks.


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Title: Re: Avast blocks dnscrypt-proxy and all internet connections
Post by: glnz on October 06, 2018, 01:33:30 PM

 
Added info:  I have Simple DNSCrypt version 0.5.8 (x64) and dnscrypt-proxy version 2.0.16.