Hi and thanks for your reply!
What is your firewall ?
Software and hardware firewall (AVM Fritz!)
I knew nothing about this one before your post, haveing had a little google, I know a little more but I still don't believe it provides outbound connection checking as mose hardware firewalls don't provide outbound protection and I couldn't find anything that specifically said that AVM Fritz! box does.
So hopefully the software firewall is some sort of add on to the actual hardware firewall.
However, if the firewall was truly blocking it then you would have zero connection or all connections.
Since you say No/Nothing to the other antivirus question, this wasn't just do you have any other one installed now but ever and how you got rid of it. I'm at a loss as to what to suggest about this intermittent issue with the web shield.
You could try a clean reinstall of avast:
Download the latest version of avast
http://www.avast.com/ger/download-avast-home.html and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again. Use that when you reinstall.
Download the avast! Uninstall Utility,
find it here and save it to your HDD.
- 1. Now uninstall (using add remove programs, if you can't do that start from the next step), reboot.
- 2. run the avast! Uninstall Utility, reboot. If step 1 failed it may be necessary to run this from safe mode, once complete reboot into normal mode.
- 3. install the latest version, reboot.