Set up your browser to use the WebShield port (12080), and then configure WebShield to use an upstream proxy (Privoxy).
More info here: http://www.avast.com/eng/webshield_issues.html#idt_6870
Cheers
Vlk
That worked like a charm Vlk. My config now looks like this;
[WebScanner]
AutoRedirect=1
HttpRedirectPort=80
LoadIsapiFilters=1
ISAPIFilter1=ashWsFtr.dll
IgnoreAddress=
IgnoreLocalhost=1
OptinProcess=privoxy.exe
UpstreamProxyHost=127.0.0.1
UpstreamProxyPort=8118
I think the OptinProcess=privoxy.exe is a redundant entry, but I was toying around with it a bit, and it doesnt seem to mind that being set. I'll remove it later and see how it goes. This solved another isse for me as I was not sure how to forward to my ISP proxy. Now I am forwarding client=>webshield=>privoxy=>server, so privoxy handles the ISP proxy part. I'm assuming that is what it is currently doing anyway.
I'm a bit of novice, but I manage to work my way through these things in a hit and miss kind of way. All is apparently working well.
One thing I have noticed is that simply terminating Webshield and then restarting it via the Avast interface is not sufficient for my win98 system to recognise the changes in the Avast4.ini file. A reboot is required for Avast to recognise that I have changed the .ini file. Is this a problem that can be fixed too?