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Title: Visual Studio 2010
Post by: wrlucas on April 23, 2012, 12:37:36 AM

I am a developer and also use Visual Studio 2010 and Avast.  Since the update on March 9th, 2012 I have had problems.
I experience random IE 9 "Cannot display webpage"  This is unrelated to Visual Studio.  However, I can reproduce this error by simply setting a debug point in any of my web applications, run the application, hit the debug stop point, then tell the application to resume.  In short, I cannot resume from a debugging session.

I know it is related to Avast as when I disable all the shields, I can debug normally.  When I enable all the shields, I cannot resume from a debug session.  When I tried disabling the shields one-at-a-time, I still got this error.  Only when I completely disable all shields do I get normal behavior.  Also this eliminates all other problems with IE 9 "Cannot display webpage."

I would at least have someone acknowledge this is problem.

Title: Re: Visual Studio 2010
Post by: NON on April 23, 2012, 01:33:02 AM

Hello wrlucas,

I also have VS2010 but no debugging problem so far. I didn't have any web application to test though.
What is your OSes, avast's version, your previous anti-virus?

Title: Re: Visual Studio 2010
Post by: wrlucas on April 23, 2012, 02:44:12 AM

I have the current version 7.0.1426 released in early March which when I started having this problem.  You have to have web applications to debug.  I have had Avast for years and the previous version was whaterver was previous to the current version. 

I am running on Windows 7.0 64 bit.

Title: Re: Visual Studio 2010
Post by: NON on April 23, 2012, 05:51:25 AM

Quote from: wrlucas on April 23, 2012, 02:44:12 AM

I have the current version 7.0.1426 released in early March which when I started having this problem.  You have to have web applications to debug.

So then I can't test it :(

Did you try re-install avast from scratch? Updated from previous versions might mess avast installation.
1. Download avast! Uninstall utility from http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility
2. Download latest avast installer from  http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/avast_free_antivirus_setup.exe
3. Save your avast settings from Settings -> Maintenance -> Save Settings
4. Uninstall avast from Control-Panel
5. Run avast! uninstall-utility from Safe Mode
6. Install avast again.

Title: Re: Visual Studio 2010
Post by: wrlucas on April 24, 2012, 11:48:00 PM

Those steps didn't change anything.  You can create a simple web forms application.  Add a text box to the default.aspx page.  In the page load event add text to the text box.  That is all you need to have a simple web application to test it this behavior.

Something very similar happened several years ago when I was running Zone Alarm.  The also would not address this issue so I switched to Avast.  Now it looks like I am shopping for a new anti-virus program.

But thanks for the replies.

WRL