Hi David & Eddy,
Yes, I read those posts. It is actually a Fisecab issue seemingly, though I was hoping that somehow Avast had worked it out with them. I have an email into Filsecab for a week now, but haven't heard from them.
They had a fix, supposedly, that there is a link to in one of the Avast forum posts, but that link is no longer working. It goes to their normal download page, and the individual fix is not listed.
I do like their Firewall, or at least I have gotten to know it.
As a work-around, that "seems" to work, at least as far as I can tell, I made a shortcut to ashWebSV.exe and put it on my quick-launch. When ashWebSV.exe stops running, I just relaunch it, without rebooting.
Seems to work fine.
So for the time being, I will happily live iwth it.
Cheers, and thanks for your help.
All the best,
Kevin