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Offline Charyb-0

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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2013, 07:45:50 PM »
Will you please attach a (readable) screen shot of what you are seeing in tcpview?

Another thing, you don't have anything Google on your computer, do you? Google Earth, Drive, etc.?

Check for Google Updater or Google Update in AppData.
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2013, 07:58:50 PM »
Show us where it says it is avast, screenshot will do ?

That will probably turn out to be avastSvc.exe, the main scanning engine and the localhost proxy used to redirect http traffic so that it can be scanned.
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2013, 08:42:17 PM »
I don't know how to insert an image.  I tried the other day and it didn't work.

I can use the snipping tool to get the image, if someone can tell me how to insert it in a message.  I tried the icon that says insert image.

I did a clean install of Windows 7, and the only program that I know of that had Google was Firefox.  It had a Google search bar, and I removed it.  I searched the computer and removed any reference to Google.
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2013, 08:45:56 PM »
Click the attachment and other options at the bottom of the post
Click browse to locate the file
Then post  ;D
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2013, 08:48:35 PM »
essexboy,
Is this another one that an OTL log would make short work of?
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2013, 08:53:44 PM »
Thank You.  I'll try it.
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2013, 08:54:01 PM »
Could enable us to determine which programme is talking to google
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2013, 12:37:41 AM »
The # sign in the hosts file is a "comment" indicator.

Remove the # sign for it to work.

127.0.0.1   localhost
::1             localhost

127.0.0.1         google.com
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Re: Avast Allows Google to Establish Connection
« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2013, 02:28:22 AM »
That did have an effect.  I can no longer go to the website google.com.

It didn't stop the connection between Avast and Google.

Thank you for the helpful information.

I can stop the connection between Google and Avast, but when I do, I can't go to any website.

I guess Avast has a reason for using Google.
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