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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #285 on: September 01, 2011, 07:03:43 PM »
Hi!

First of all, I am new in the forum. I want to congratulate the people of Avast for such a great product. I would also like to know if you are planning to release a version of Avast in-the-cloud.

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There already is some cloud based features in avast if you enable the comunity feature but i dont think avast will ever go full cloud like panda cloud for instance, at least i hope they dont.

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #286 on: September 01, 2011, 07:09:22 PM »
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Thanks again, DavidR.

So I guess it can be considered a "well-known browser process"...
Anyway, it does generate connections using port 80 (and port 443) - because Online Armor asked for permission.

Uncheck this option and remove any rule/permission you may have in OA and see it you get any further permission pop-ups for it (http connections only).

It also may use additional ports depending on the plugins installed (e.g. 844 and 1935 if you have the Flash Player, but obviously this is not http traffic).

No, on the contrary it isn't a known browser, if you uncheck the option you talked about, then I believe its http traffic 'won't be scanned.'
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #287 on: September 01, 2011, 07:22:49 PM »
Well the new web shield scans 'all' http traffic no matter what might have originated that traffic. In the previous avast versions only well know browser were supported (to ensure compatibility I assume), so anything else that initiated an http connection wouldn't have been scanned.

So essentially this option reverts to how the web shield used to work with only supported browsers.
Thank you DavidR and Asyn for your explanations.

If Avast hasn't got a ready translation into Russian for "Scan traffic from well-known browser processes only", I can suggest one: "Сканировать только веб-трафик через известные браузеры". This is not a word-to-word translation (in back-translation it means: "Scan web-traffic from well-known browsers only") but it would be enough compact and understandable.
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #288 on: September 01, 2011, 07:26:53 PM »
No, on the contrary it isn't a known browser, if you uncheck the option you talked about, then I believe its http traffic 'won't be scanned.'

Really?  ???

At the moment I don't have the latest beta installed because I'm using my father's PC so I cannot see if the http traffic generated by plugin-container.exe  is being scanned.

Perhaps at this point someone of the Avast! Team could help clarifying this:

if I tick "Scan traffic from well-known browser processes only", will the traffic generated by Firefox's plugin-container.exe (a separate browser's process) be still scanned by the Web Shield?

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #289 on: September 01, 2011, 07:51:45 PM »
I think that the 'Browser Processes' refers to the browser executable file (which is a process in task manager) rather than other processes within the browser.
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #290 on: September 01, 2011, 08:25:07 PM »
Using firefox 6,with admuncher enabled and lastest avast beta ,the hands on the clock at http://www.bbc.co.uk/
dont move.Everything works ok using IE9.Can someone who uses admuncher and firefox 6 confirm this?.My system is windows 7 64bit
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #291 on: September 01, 2011, 10:08:18 PM »
Using firefox 6,with admuncher enabled and lastest avast beta ,the hands on the clock at http://www.bbc.co.uk/
dont move.Everything works ok using IE9.Can someone who uses admuncher and firefox 6 confirm this?.My system is windows 7 64bit
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I don't see any clock on the BBC home page. Where is it, exactly?
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #292 on: September 01, 2011, 10:13:49 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
The second hand or clock hands dont move

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #293 on: September 01, 2011, 10:14:59 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
The second hand or clock hands dont move
I go to that link and don't see any clock anywhere.

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #294 on: September 01, 2011, 10:21:44 PM »
you may have to click "customise this page " at bottom and show clock?

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #295 on: September 01, 2011, 10:25:16 PM »
I updated from the GUI, and everything is fine. I really like the current development of the Script - and Web Shield. Cheers guys :)

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #296 on: September 01, 2011, 10:32:11 PM »
Using firefox 6,with admuncher enabled and lastest avast beta ,the hands on the clock at http://www.bbc.co.uk/
dont move.Everything works ok using IE9.Can someone who uses admuncher and firefox 6 confirm this?.My system is windows 7 64bit
m.

I don't see any clock on the BBC home page. Where is it, exactly?

Top right under the Day and I haven't customised anything and the clock is working for me. Do any of you have bbcimg.co.uk blocked (noscript, etc.) as that is where the clock is coming from. Perhaps it might be a geo-blocking thing for those who can't see it at all.
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #297 on: September 01, 2011, 10:48:28 PM »
My apologies everyone  :-[
It is admuncher itself that is blocking the clock.I had a "my filter"rule enabled which allows everything on the bbc website.However, somehow all of my custom filters for trusted sites have disappeared and admuncher was filtering the page .....
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Default filter match - Block retrieval of URL: ?*ns__t= [http://sa.bbc.co.uk/bbc/bbc/s?name=home.page&ml_name=barlesque&app_type=web&language=en-GB&ml_version=0.2.9&ns__t=1314909712731&ns_c=UTF-8&ns_ti=BBC%20-%20Homepage&ns_jspageurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/&ns_referrer=]
Removed suspected web bug [http://www.bbc.co.uk/]
Default filter match - Block retrieval of URL: ?*ns__t= [http://sa.bbc.co.uk/bbc/bbc/s?name=home.page&ml_name=barlesque&app_type=web&language=en-GB&ml_version=0.2.9&ns__t=1314909648330&ns_c=UTF-8&ns_ti=BBC%20-%20Homepage&ns_jspageurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/&ns_referrer=]
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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #298 on: September 02, 2011, 12:26:03 AM »
I checked the option "scan traffic from well-known browsers processes only" then I visited some flash games sites which will view games in swf which is contained in the firefox's plugin-container process. In the web shield activity last page scanned I see that it scanned the swf.
This a simple test and still need confirmation that plugin-container process is treated by avast as a well-known browser.

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Re: ** INTRODUCING: NEW BETA VERSION OF AVAST - NOW 6.0.1279 **
« Reply #299 on: September 02, 2011, 04:30:45 AM »
thx author, this update solved my right click delay problem, keep it up ;D