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« Last post by IDF on Today at 08:44:36 PM »
Reiterating:
A TOTAL CATASTROPHE.
1) Avast updated the program itself yesterday without asking me. I have always required it to "Ask when an update is available" but this was ignored.
2) No internet activity is passing through AT ALL. I thought it was Parallels, but no. Fully rebooted Mac, then rebooted Windows. No change.
2) As prior user says, when I first open Avast a big warning appears on the first screen you see, that Firewall is turned off
(Yes it says that in red.)
There is a big button to TURN ON [...] and if you click TURN ON it says with a red X in a circle "Firewall not available!"
If you click the box with [...] in it you are given the option to Ignore, which I did not try.
3) On the Notifications Alerts, it says Firewall is turned off, with the same green button to Turn on. Again it says "Firewall not available."
4) If you go into Menu > Settings > Protection > Firewall, the firewall toggle is green/on. I click the Packet Rules, and my application-specific rules are gone.
List of network profiles says: No items in this list.
But it turns out you can work around this:
Here in Firewall Settings, if I turn off my firewall which is supposedly "off and does not exist" - then Internet access actually works.
So the Firewall that is non-existent and is off, which is actually on but without my rules and is blocking everything, can be turned off to bypass its total blocking of everything.
When will this be fixed? Will my rules ever be recoverable?
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