There is no Proxy configured in IE (or Opera) just configured for direct access.
ad Muncher is using ports in the 1101-1115 range (that is what is configured now in Outpost)
Edit. I disabled ad Muncher and Web Shield is working again. No I need to find out how to be able to use my favorite ad blocker in combination with Avast
Kantjer, indeed cooperation with avast and Ad-Muncher is a little bit more complicated, as ad-muncher does not use the traditional proxy-in-the-browser approach, it intercept the connection automatically as they leave your browser. I have several work arounds for you.
1) simply allowing WebShield to filter admunch.exe will do the trick. You may edit the avast4.ini file and in the [WebScanner] section add or edit the key OptinProces to include the admunch.exe process name.
E.g.
[WebScanner]
OptinProcess=admunch.exe
But I must warn you, I have seen pages that don't load correctly with this setup. Not to mention these don't not load correctly with ad-munch and
without WebShield - but with WebShield things are behaving a little bit differently. ( try
http://www.zive.cz/default.asp)
2) you may follow the ad-munch help instruction and enable ad-munch filtering for the ashwebsv.exe process. More info in the ad-munch help files. But basically, first step is to allow the connection to reach webshield - they are stopped (redirected) by ad-muncher by default. This can be done by excluding your browsers from ad-muncher (add -iexplore:* and -opera:* in the options/filter target ad-munch configuration page.
This will enable webshield, but ad-muncher will be disabled. You'll want to enable ad-munch for the ashwebsv.exe (WebShield) process. This can be done by adding the +ashwebsv:* string into the ad-munch config page, but firstly you'll have to download wsock32.dll from them (as said before, more info in their help files).
To sum up, here we have to colliding apps, WebShield and Ad-Muncher. I'll definitely try to identify the problem and when all problems will be sorted out, the solution 1) would be the easiest choice, when there are really no problems with this ad blocker, avast may adopt the process name and filter it's communication without any user intervention. In the mean time, you can configure ad-munch as described in the 2), or use the 1) option and see if any troubles will come up.
Lukas