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Kamykaze

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Pausing shields stops downloads
« on: October 02, 2013, 01:30:05 PM »
Hi!
Apparently disabling avast 8 shields during a download with Firefox 24 cancels that download.
Is this a bug?
Is it by design, and if so, why?

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Offline Milos

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Re: Pausing shields stops downloads
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2013, 01:32:41 PM »
Hi!
Apparently disabling avast 8 shields during a download with Firefox 24 cancels that download.
Is this a bug?
Is it by design, and if so, why?

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Hello,
the shield work as proxy and disabling avast!'s shield you stop something in the middle of downloading chain so it can't continue downloading.

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Re: Pausing shields stops downloads
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2013, 01:34:08 PM »
and if you pause shields before you start the download?
(not that i would recomend that in case the file is infected)



Offline Milos

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Re: Pausing shields stops downloads
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2013, 02:28:57 PM »
and if you pause shields before you start the download?
(not that i would recomend that in case the file is infected)
This has no effect on downloaded file.

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Offline redwolfe_98

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Re: Pausing shields stops downloads
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2013, 05:43:46 PM »
kamykaze, as milos said, the avast program's "webshield" acts as a proxy.. with "webshield" enabled, all internet-connections are routed through "webshield".. if you disable "webshield", any internet-connections that you had, which were routed through "webshield", are lost..

so, if you want to temporarily disable "webshield", you need to disable it before making any internet-connections.. with webshield disabled, the internet-connections will not be routed through "webshield"..