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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Ken2009 on June 29, 2010, 05:58:42 AM

Title: Web shield not working?
Post by: Ken2009 on June 29, 2010, 05:58:42 AM

Hi all,

I have installed the avast free 5.0. I realised that that the wed shield is not running properly. Although is stated as RUNNING, but the results is always 0/0 not matter how many websites i visited. What's wrong?


Note: All my shields are shown as RUNNING.

Title: Re: Web shield not working?
Post by: Gargamel360 on June 29, 2010, 06:04:23 AM

The Web Shield should operate out of port 12080 on your firewall.

Assign your browser to port 12080 outgoing on your firewall.  See if that works.

Also, the Web Shield can't scan HTTPS traffic.

Title: Re: Web shield not working?
Post by: Ken2009 on June 29, 2010, 06:10:28 AM

Thanks for the prompt reply. Will check it tonite.  :)

Title: Re: Web shield not working?
Post by: DavidR on June 29, 2010, 04:46:41 PM

What is your browser, if it isn't one of the main stream ones it may not be directly supported ?

However changing the browser proxy settings as mentioned should resolve that if it is an unsupported browser.