A friend of mine just updated avast! Free Edition to the latest version, and from that moment he noticed that Google page takes a long, long time to load, and even a simple search requires 15-20 seconds to complete. Strangely, a lot of other sites we tried to open are not affected by this slow down, and open quite immediately. I suggested him to disable the WebShield just to make a try, and guess what? Google opens immediately. Then we restarted the web protection and again Google runs very, very slowly.
He runs Windows 7 Home 64 bit, and the browser he uses is Firefox 26. We didn't try with IE. He has Comodo Firewall, but there was no problem before the latest update of avast!.
For example, I have win xp home 32, latest avast free, comodo firewall, but I'm not affected by this problem, and personally I'm happy because everything is working as expected.
What could be the cause of this? I think we could try to add Google to the exclusion list, but since this is not normal, I thought I could write here and wait for suggestions.
Thanks in advance,
Alpha.