Hey guys,
greetings from Hungary, keep up the good work! I have always liked Avast AV and recommended to others as well, but now I have some problem related to this topic.
I have installed a fresh Windows XP SP3 and Sunbelt Kerio firewall on my pc and of course, avast as antivirus software. I can't remember when webshield started to block (yeah I know it doesn't block anything, but read it further please...
) http traffic, because due to this problem I've tried to re-/uninstall kerio and avast several times and I don't know what was the original installation order at the beginning (maybe avast was installed before kerio), but nothing helped (I also allowed ashWebSv.exe in- and outgoing traffic on all ports in kerio).
Now I removed kerio (I didn't have any idea) and made a fresh install of avast (with avast uninstall utility), but browsing is still blocked.
Let me summarize things and provide more information to clarify things:
So...I have had Online Armor and Kerio installed on my pc (not the same time of course) and after I choose Kerio I installed avast. Webshield (or something else) started blocking browsing (can't remember when and why, or if it was ever working or not, because I did so many install/reinstall after experienced the problem) and after that Kerio "rule" for ashWebSv.exe didn't help, I uninstalled Kerio and Avast and made a fresh install of Avast. Now I only have windows firewall and Avast free on my computer, and even if I turn off windows firewall, avast webshield "blocks" browsing, i.e if I terminate this provider, everything works fine. Because you say that some firewall should block traffic (or ashWebSv.exe) I don't have any idea what to do now, because I uninstalled all the firewalls I had before and turned off windows firewall to check, if webshield is working or not. It is not...any idea?
I use firefox and firefox proxy settings could't help either.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Please feel free to ask if I messed up things and can't make out what happened
Best regards,
Csiga