Avast 5.0 blocking access to PF for Opera

[Borek]

Avast 5.0 (antivirus) blocks access to PF in a strange way. Thread pages load without problems, but it is almost impossible to see some forum pages (like feedback - https://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=19). Could be there is a single file requested by the browser that creates problems. After excluding PF from scanning everything is back to normal.

I will do some more testing.

Edit: Google Chrome seems to be not affected, Opera after getting files into the cache works OK too. Chrome after clearing cache is OK.

Edit2: this is more complicated, now everything works OK, no matter if I clear the cache and/or switch Avast on/off, or add PF to sites excluded from scanning. Strange.

 

[pantaz]

Just FYI: I have Avast 5 and Opera 10.63 running on a laptop and a desktop (both use Win XP Pro SP3). I haven't encountered any issue wth PF, or any other forums.

 

[Borek]

10.63 here as well. It doesn't happen every time, but I have seen it twice so far.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Switch to AVG :)