Hey
DavidR, all I can say is Wow, the setting "Scan traffic from well-known browser processes only" as worded was obviously confusing to me. This is why I had asked what exactly it does.
I interpreted this to mean that Avast would only allow "well-known" browsers "only" if checked, but checked means that Avast will NOT scan browsers unless they are "well-known" if checked, so browsers NOT "well-known are "ignored" by Avast when "unchecked". Got it, the way it's worded just seems a little ambiguous, so then like you said "unchecked" is less secure.
I would have worded the setting "Scan traffic from all browsers will be processed" and then make the default "checked" and make this the default. This makes more sense to me than having a setting that means, paraphrase "better known browsers are scanned" when the setting is unchecked. First of the all the wording Avast uses is confusing (in my opinion my wording makes more sense) and to me a checked setting is generally thought of as "proactive" but in this case the way Avast as it worded an uncheck setting is what is more proactive.
Well, enough of that.... I've tried checking the setting and disabling the "Web Shield" and even clicked on the "OK" for that "Active Protection" window which causes the interface to exit at that level and give me the "Attention warning" and then turned the "Web Shield" back on and it
makes no difference,
still can't login into Avast.
Should I actually have to reboot? I wouldn't think so.
There is no problem (setting unchecked) with any other sites with Pale Moon including many numerous forums that I use (including dozens of them that I use), it happens Avast is the only site that has this problem with Pale Moon and if I'm not mistaken this has been the case ever since Avast implemented the "single sign-on" (like the Pale Moon developers like to call it) where Avast has the login take care of both the Avast forum and the Avast Account (my.avast.com). I've already posted here in the forum how problematic that can be and how in my view Avast did not think this out very well.
I've discussed this problem in detail in a previous post in this topic which let me be clear really has NOTHING to do with this Pale Moon login problem as it impacts all browsers in this case. In brief terms I found what can cause the Avast forum login to fail to work for ALL browsers (for those that have found they were unable to login to the Avast forum) unless the user takes the step to have to clear all Avast cookies. There is a reason for this, which I'll explain. As you know when FREE users renew their license for another year an email is requested from the user. It is suggested that users provide the same email as the one used on the last one year renewal, but what about if an email account is closed (can happen you know) or perhaps the user forgets what email they used last time after an entire year. So here's the problem, if you use a different email address than the email address for logging into Avast then you won't be logged into the forum (OK, you say no problem it makes sense to just login with the new email address), but what this (using a different email address than before) also does is make the "login" button in the Avast forum totally non-functional (Oops, doesn't make sense anymore) that is because the Avast forum login has the old email address on file that the user has either closed or forgotten.
Do you see how and why it appears that Avast has not thought all scenarios out very well. To expect the user to have the same email available year after year is not realistic. And the way Avast has done this is the Avast Account login tied also to the forum relies on the user having access to the same email address.
There may be something I'm missing or not understanding here. If I'm wrong in any way please let me how.
Note: Sometimes it takes more than a one-liner to explain things adequately (for those who are phobic about posts that aren't pithy)
