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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: danrulz12 on January 22, 2008, 10:38:23 AM

Title: Avast! ashwebsv isn't releasing tcp connections
Post by: danrulz12 on January 22, 2008, 10:38:23 AM

I know how avast! works by acting as a proxy for all tcp traffic, but the problem is after i close my web browser (firefox) it still maintains alot of these connections. Nothing short of restarting will close them. I have checked to see firefox still isn't running in the background and it isn't so i don't really know why ashwebsv isn't releasing the connections. It isn't really causing any problems, its just annoying. Can anyone tell me if this is a known problem or if there is a fix for it.

Regards, Daniel

Title: Re: Avast! ashwebsv isn't releasing tcp connections
Post by: rassel on January 24, 2008, 10:06:02 AM

What annoying do u mean? And please simplified the problem you have in easier way to understand it

Title: Re: Avast! ashwebsv isn't releasing tcp connections
Post by: DavidR on January 24, 2008, 01:44:52 PM

If you can provide some more information, extract of the firewall logs or image of the log, etc.

You have to see if it is a localhost (your local computer not internet) connection that is open, those are the ports that avast listens on to intercept http traffic to your browser. So in my firewall I see localhost:loopback entries for firefox and ashMaiSv.exe (Web Shield)