Hello,
Story is like this: After I installed SP1 for my Windows7 all web traffic just stopped. But I was able to copy access files on my SMB server, I was able to update avast, etc. All other internet activity was working but WWW.I was unable to load any www, including google or ebay.
First idea was that there is some malware on my HW, because I messed around with some trainers to one game. Investigation started. I scanned my HW with avast, norton, panda, combofix, hijackthis, and no thread was found.
I started laptop into safe mode with network. WWW was working as charm.
Somebody on other forum suggested turining off avast. I did so, and www traffic started to work. Good sign. Then I started turning on each shield one by one, and in the mean time I was checking if www is avalible.
The only shield that is blocking www browsing is WWW shield. I have no idea if this is caused by neither 'advanced' option nor something else. I'll test it later.
Versions of SW:
- Windows 7 Pro SP1
- avast 6.0.1000 (updated from 5.1.889 (or something like this))
- firewall: PC Tools Firewall 6.0.0.88 (IMO: FW had nothing to do with blocking www traffic)
Questions:
- Has anybode else had the problem with blocked www traffic by avast ?
- @avast team: is there any logfile I can provide to speed up possible root cause ?
- @avast team: if problem is more persistant, when are you going to release newer version ? Note that www shield is off, which is not recommended...
Best regards
Blackest