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[Cmude]

Hi. I'm new to this forum, so please forgive me if my answer exists somewhere already. I did try to search to find it first, but I had no luck. I have a free version of Avast on my computer, and I believe it is blocking Facebook and Words with Friends on Facebook. Sometimes I can get into Facebook on the first attempt, and other times, it seems to take multiple tries. Once I get in, I try to play Words with Friends and sometimes I have no problem at all, but most of the time, it takes forever to load or won't load. I can even be in the game and go to play my next word, and it freezes up on me. My daughter has a laptop and does not have Avast and has no issues, so I think Avast is causing my problem. Does anyone know of a 'fix' for this?

[!Donovan]

Hi Cmude,

If avast! is blocking, there is likely a valid reason.

Do you get an alert? If you do, please attach a screenshot of the alert.

[Cmude]

I don't get an alert. It just takes forever to load. I don't always sit and watch it, but sometimes it takes 15 minutes or more and other times, I get the error message that the page I was trying to access is not available. I can't remember the exact wording right now. I can go to my daughter's laptop and have it come right up, though, so that's what makes me think it must have something to do with Avast. I can go to other websites without issues, but Facebook gives me issues daily.

[!Donovan]

And you're certain that avast! is the cause of this? Do you have valid evidence?

[Cmude]

No, I'm not certain it's caused by Avast, but just through process of elimination, I was thinking Avast was the likely culprit. I have Avast on my computer, and my daughter does not, so I was thinking just maybe it had something to do with Avast.