Johnny4745,
Two subjects:
(1) You have created what in many firewalls is simply called a BLOCK ALL rule.
That is a very handy thing. Anything not in your rules is denied. If you don't have such a rule, a good firewall will ASK and then you can deny or allow or make a rule from the alert. I don't know how Avast FW works, but looking at your screenie, I'd guess it's the same.
Good old reference about firewalls - this is a link just to the last, 4th, chapter of CrazyM opus magnum, valid to this day:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=4426(2) google.com connection. Well, much debate on this forum, and as DavidR says, it's there, that's it. As a matter of fact, if you use hosts file which blocks a lot of google ad servers, you will see in avast's HtmlRemoteContent.log this kind of entries - because hosts file is blocking it here. 12002 likely means no connect.
HttpSendRequest returned 12002 for: Host:
www.google-analytics.comNo big deal really IMO. Even if allowed, it's harmless, they just snoop and count.
And a
request to you or someone. I am mildly interested in looking at Avast firewall seeing that packet rules exist here. Is there a detailed manual about how rules are made, about alerts, about making rules from alerts, that sort of thing. Where can one find it?