The comments about avast being browser agnostic are valid and all very well for users of the more current Windows systems (2000, XP Vista). This distinction needs to be made absolutely clear.
Such comments are completely untrue for the users of the Win9x operating systems (Win 95, 98, 98SE and Me) and, frankly, misleading to them. Users of these operating systems need to make modifications to each and every browser they use to ensure that it will work with the avast Webshield. Making this clear is even more important now when there are a quite a number of new users moving to avast with these older operating systems because their former AV no longer supports the older operating systems.
In hindsight, YES, you're absolutely right, alanrf. With that in mind, I have a proposal. Since there are no doubt now MANY former AVG Users being forced to abandon ship and migrate over to avast!, here's an idea that could help them out. This goes for any other New avast! Users no matter from which former AV they're migrating.
Someone on these avast! Forums, whoever has the power to create those
Sticky Topics that stay at the Top of the Forums ... can create a Topic titled something like ---
For Migrating Former AVG Users New to avast! ... or ---
For ALL New avast! Users. You can then post in there the links to those Step by Step Proxy Setting Videos, which DavidR had put up on another thread. You can elaborate any other pertinent Info that would faciliate ANY New Users' Getting Up to Speed experience with avast!
You could put this Sticky Topic ... New User avast! Orientation Post in the avast! Home / Pro Forum ... the General Topics Forum ... and the Viruses & Worms Forum. By the Sticky Topic Post always staying up at the Top, it would immediately capture the attention of New Users to avast!.
Well, that would be MY 2 Cents suggestion for the day.