Hey guys, that's pretty much the whole problem - Avast! seemed to be blocking almost all of my internet access (via browsers). In Chrome, I get the "Unable to access the network" error. When I disable Web Shield, there is no problem. I have also tried disabling several settings inside of the Web Shield "Expert Settings" to no avail.
Please help! I don't want to give up on Avast!, things have been going so good! But this is simply unacceptable!