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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work v7
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2012, 07:36:10 PM »
the firewall and the mail shield are the two components  that have issues off and on at install time. It's been like that since V5. say you uninstalled the fw and want it back, chances are that you won't get it back  - module won't be running - not always the case but most of the time. Then repair won't help, most of the time ... while it does, sometimes ... only the devs can help here. Otherwise >>> clean install. Yeah I know, the OP here did a clean install a short while ago :-\

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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work v7
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2012, 08:25:01 PM »
Not a good situation.

Alikhan - If nobody else comes up with any bright suggestions I think you will have to put in a support ticket.

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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work v7
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2012, 09:00:57 PM »
I don't know what is wrong. There's no files beginning with asw in the drivers folder. Any devs here who can help?
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work v7
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2012, 09:23:28 PM »
I don't know what is wrong. There's no files beginning with asw in the drivers folder. Any devs here who can help?

wait I'll pm one ;) ...

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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work v7
« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2012, 09:27:20 PM »
Thanks.
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2012, 09:48:20 PM »
I've tried the aswclear tool 3 times to no avail now. Could something else be affecting it?
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2012, 10:00:06 PM »
Please help.
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2012, 10:06:56 PM »
Is it worth re-running the avg uninstall utility in windows safe mode (hit f8 at boot) do you think to see if it finds any leftovers?

(Don't worry too much about a temporary lack of AIS FW by the way - windows FW is effective at blocking inbound connections, and the other avast shields would hopefully block any malware before it connected outbound anyway - as would your mbam pro).

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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2012, 10:07:58 PM »
I've tried that about an hour ago. It deleted some things.
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2012, 10:11:22 PM »
Have you tried AIS FW re-installation since (I'm guessing you probably have)?

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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2012, 10:13:08 PM »
Doing another clean install now.
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2012, 10:21:32 PM »
Nope. Another clean install didn't work.
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2012, 10:46:19 PM »
Is there anything I can do to fix this other then wait for a dev?
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2012, 11:24:14 PM »
Bump.
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Re: My Avast Firewall Doesn't Work ( Avast IS v7)
« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2012, 11:30:50 PM »
Try using ccleaner (http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner) to clean up any leftover registry keys.