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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday May 13 2017, @06:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the whoopsie-daisy dept.

It seems an Avast update has screwed the pooch again, blocking HTTP requests from all applications. That's also going to make getting support to fix the issue a bit of a problem.

An Avast software update pushed out on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the firm's freebie anti-malware software.

Users affected by the problem have started threads (here and here among others) on Avast's support forum.

El Reg learnt of the issue through reader Michael S.

"Non tech savvy users will have issues reporting or getting the problem fixed," he explained. "To regain web access you have to disable Web Shield or disable Avast or uninstall Avast. To fix the issue you have to do a clean install of the latest version of software."

It's unclear how widespread the problem is. Avast's PR reps have acknowledged our requests for comment but are yet to supply a substantive response.


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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Sunday May 14 2017, @09:20AM (3 children)

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Sunday May 14 2017, @09:20AM (#509401) Homepage Journal

    Are you using two seperate video cards with one being NVIDIA and another not? I ran into this landmine a few weeks ago on my desktop as I use both the onboard graphics and an NVIDIA card to drive two separate monitors. It's possible to get this to work (the problem is that NVIDIA's drivers are epic piles of poop).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @02:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @02:20PM (#509457)

    NVIDIA GeForce GT520 and GTX750 Ti

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday May 14 2017, @02:51PM (1 child)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday May 14 2017, @02:51PM (#509465) Homepage Journal

    I had the same problem with Suse fifteen years ago. Had a video card with S-Video out I used to plug it into the TV. Windows showed in the TV, Suse showed garbage, but worked with a monitor.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @04:17PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 14 2017, @04:17PM (#509506)

      My favorite was when Fedora Core refused to output blue. You could adjust the RGB sliders in the video settings and blue could be full on but turn down red or green and the screen was black. And yes, the colors worked when the runlevel was changed to 3 or lower. Never did figure out that problem as it disappeared after running up2date one day.