(Solved) Avast 5 Webshield blocking IE8

[Greenc0untry]

Hello avast community. Well, i am comming here today because i recently installed avast 5 and webshield seems to block IE8/firefox from loading webpages. For realtime protection I am using windows 7 firewall control and iobit secuirty 360 alongside avast 5 free edition. I previously had AVG and i completely removed the program with the avg uninstaller. I am using a Toshiba satellite L455 on a updated windows 7 64 bit operationg system. I believe my system is very clean and maleware free. I have scanned with clamWin, malwarebytes, and superantispyware. From researching this problem i understand that this issue may be connected to my firewall. However, i allowed all connections for avast antivirus, avast service, avast update, aswregsvr.exe, and aswregsvr64.exe with no success. I am not sure if the following information will help out or not but i also have steam installed. The steam program connects and updates normally but when i try to login it can't login and connect my account to the steam servers. Maybe the two problems are connected? I don't know what else to say, ever other program besides those two connect just fine. Can anyone please help me fix this webshield issue? Thanks!

[Pondus]

was your Toshiba satellite L455  delivered wit a preinstalled AV program ?
have you uninstalled it ?
did you run a removal tool after the uninstall so all leftovers are gone ?
you can find removal tool  here http://uninstallers.blogspot.com/



some info about why you can not trust IObit here
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=29681
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=30989
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=33217

[Greenc0untry]

Ya i think so but i can't remember which one. i ran the norton and mcafee uninstaller just in case with no luck.

[Greenc0untry]

i have used soo many free antivirus programs, so im just gonna try to run the uninstaller for each one of them. Ill let you know the result. thanks for posting.

[Greenc0untry]

hey i ran the uninstaller for every single AV program that i have used and it still doesn't work. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? please?? thanks!!

[Pondus]

Have you restarted after you run the removal tools ?

Does it work if you turn off the firewall ?

[Greenc0untry]

Ya i restarted my computer and even cleaned up my registry. I just tried to turn off my firewall and that didn't work either. appreciate your help. anymore ideas

[Pondus]

Ya i restarted my computer and even cleaned up my registry.

I was going to suggest another shot in the dark. Run Eusing free reg cleaner and fix all.....but i see you already have
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

i am out of idea`s.....

[Greenc0untry]

i found another post that helped me fix the problem. thank you sooo much for helping!!!!

this is what i did to fix the problem.


Fix Winsock Manually on Windows 7
1. Open up the command line utility and enter: (run the utility as administrator)

netsh winsock reset catalog (resets winsock entries)
netsh int ip reset reset.log hit (resets TCP/IP stack)

2. Reboot your PC



Read more: http://windows7themes.net/winsock-fix-for-windows-7.html#ixzz14dY7ZhOV

[Pondus]

Fantastic     this may be very usefull as you are not the first with this problem