avast isn't a firewall and doesn't have any means of closing or opening ports.
What is your firewall (I guess by your previous comment, none) ?
What ports does the program suggest opening ?
How are these patches downloaded ?
Whilst the web shield would scan content using port 80 http port (for normal browsing) even if it was scanning the download it shouldn't have a significant impact. I'm on dial-up and see no noticeable slowing of downloads.
Can you tell us a little about your system, CPU, RAM, internet connection method, etc.
Hey first
I read the whole FAQ, I read some Topics here and I tried the search but either Avast! has changed or my PC is being weird.
My Problem is the following:
A game is operating through the ports 33334-33336, which seems to be a high risk. First of all my Router blocked this, so I configured the NAT firewall not to do it. Everything worked fine but exactly in the moment that I installed Avast! it stopped and showed me that the connection could not be made DUE to my ports are locked.
My Windows Firewall is always disabled and I have deinstalled my only "protection"-program, Antivir, just before I installed Avast!.
It seems obvious that Avast! is blocking my direct connection on these Ports, so I first disabled the "On Access Protection" by clicking on the blue ball on the bottom. When this didn't show any effect I used my Taskmanager to disable some processes, exactly: ashMaiSv.exe, ashServ.exe, ashWebSv.exe, aswUpdSv.exe .
I thought I'd have taken down Avast! completely but on the game it had NO effect.
I went to the Services control, started all Avast services and terminated them on this way, nothing happened.
System Info:
AMD Athlon 3800+
1 GB DDR2 Ram
GF 7600
Windows XP SP 2
Connection via cable to router is working and permanently connected to the net.
Is there any way to 'give free' the Ports? Or at least shut down Avast! completely, cause I'm definitely not going to reinstall this program every time I wanna play ):
Thanks