Web Shield Blocking all Internet Access

[clanderson]

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!

[John.A]

Same problem here! Started happening today, never had any problem with Avast or internet before. Disabling the webshield solves it, but I would prefer a better solution to this.

[Pondus]

does anyone have a firewall with outbound protection?

if so, try this
delete all avast rules in firewall....reboot, create new rules

[clanderson]

I've read threads on here pertaining to this problem and have seen the nightmarish journey they've been on.. I feel like I'm entering that realm. Ugh.

I actually just did that, Pondus. Seems to be working ok for now, but now whenever I restart, my Windows Firewall is disabled. Think that's an outside issue though.

[de redder]

Bingo, i came on this forum for this exactly same problem.

3 computers here with avast. 1 of them has the same problem.
I gave up, tried all possibilities. I hope avast will patch the av program.