XP SP3 Avast Free 5.0.396/100207-0 stops IE8 working.
Firefox browsing works fine, but click on any link in IE8 and nothing happens, then it times out and shows the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage, diagnose connection problems" screen.
Turn off avast5 webshield, works fine.
Pretty serious bug, am I alone?
The temporary fix if anyone else gets this problem is right click on avast icon, open avast user interface, realtime shields, webshield, untick scan web(http) traffic. Doing so is living dangerously though.
This isn't a firewall issue (using windows firewall, no outbound protection), purely down to Avast5 webscanner subsytem, system is freshly installed and patched, and worked fine with Avast4
Why isn't there an avast5 section to this site, or if it's here, where is it?