Hi there,
I'm also experiencing the issue whereby Avast Free Antivirus 6's Web Shield appears to be blocking my internet access. I've got Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with SP 1. I originally had McAfee Security Center on here, but when it expired, I got rid of it and downloaded Comodo Internet Security instead - but its antivirus kept crashing the computer when I did a scan, so I got rid of the antivirus but kept the firewall and downloaded Avast antivirus instead. It's always worked brilliantly on my laptop, which is running Win XP, so I figured it'd work great on my Win 7 desktop as well. But this morning I turned it on to discover that while things like Outlook were working fine, I couldn't access webpages in a browser (neither IE or Safari) unless I first disabled Avast's Web Shield.
I have searched the forums. None of the other suggestions I've found seem to work:
- Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't get rid of the problem
- My TEMP folders and the registry keys are all set up properly already
- Disabling and then re-enabling the web shield (or all the shields together) does NOT grant me access, like it does for some users
- I tried updating to the latest pre-release 6.0.1044(?), but that didn't help either.
Anyone got anything else?
Thanks,
Jonathan