Latest Avast Update Blocks Users from the Internet

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The Internet is a dangerous place. We get it, Avast, but why do you have to block web access?

It seems that the latest Avast software update pushed on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the latest version.

The company's support forum is also filling up with people complaining about the issue. It's unclear how widespread the problem is, but the Avast forums are full of people complaining about the issue.

Users have found away to get over the problem. According to people posting on the forums trying to help others in trouble, the only ways to go online after running the update feature is to disable the Web Shield, disable Avast completely or uninstall the software altogether. In fact, uninstalling and reinstalling a fresh copy on the device seems to be the best option at this point in time.

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[brambedkar59]

why do you have to block web access?

Maybe bc it's the only way to be truly safe

 

[Winter Soldier]

Debug means "remove errors" then probably "there are errors by removing the errors"
Sometimes it is better less updates but more reliable.

 

[Windows Defender Shill]

Stay with Avast long enough and their careless updates will bite you.

Then their little pop up ads will start to annoy even more.

Nobody takes their user base more for granted than Avast

 

[shmu26]

Does this only affect those poor souls who installed the web shield?

 

[spaceoctopus]

Experienced that issue too. With downloaded files disappearing after the browser is closed. Extremely buggy like always. And their firewall is always full of unresolved issues.They should remove it from their products and use the windows firewall like some other suites do.

 

[shmu26]

With downloaded files disappearing after the browser is closed.

I had this issue today, with Chrome, but I don't use Avast. I discovered that Chrome was ignoring the custom download location that I had specified, and was downloading to the default location instead. All the "missing" files were in there. Seems to be connected to the recent Chrome update.

 

[TheJokerz]

Where are all the hate mongers on this one lol

 

[Marko :)]

I'm using latest version of Avast and I don't have any problems at all. I can access internet normally. According to their forum, reinstallation solves problem.

 

[spaceoctopus]

I had this issue today, with Chrome, but I don't use Avast. I discovered that Chrome was ignoring the custom download location that I had specified, and was downloading to the default location instead. All the "missing" files were in there. Seems to be connected to the recent Chrome update.

My problem was occuring with Pale Moon. Avast was blocking OpenVPN too. I don't know why, so the result was that no VPNs were functioning properly. Once Avast Internet security was uninstalled, everything was back to normal.

 

[Andytay70]

I have not issues with avast premier (Yet)!

 

[Daniel Keller]

Finally true safety, thanks!
It surely happen to give people more time to update WD and not getting exploited meanwhile

 

[jamescv7]

It is so disappointing that Avast repeats some history; where issues occurred already due to blocked websites.

One of the reason why reputation can affect to the overall performance of a product.

 

[Fritz]

Well you surely can't beat the security improvement, way to go Avast!