How to make avast work nicely with OA Free?

Which components of Avast are compatible with Online Armor free?
Should I disable:
- Web Shield?
- Network Shield?
- Behavioral Blocker?
I know OA has Web Shield of its own. Are these similar?

 

I don't know which way you want to go, but when I installed those 2, I did notice quite a slowdown in browsing. Not sure which was responsible, or if there was a conflict, but typically, Avast's web shield is very good, and has no impact on browsing by itself. I would disable the OA web stuff, however, I didn't see any obvious way to do that. Maybe someone else knows how... Other than that, they both seemed to get along fine..

 

I listed both my Outpost firewall and Avast as exceptions on each others settings. I never had a conflict. I would guess OA would work too.

 

I think I saw something like that posted somewhere recently too. That would probably do it.

 

Not sure that it's safe: they are two programs that work at very low level, it's possible that they interfere or conflict, see for exemple: https://forums.comodo.com/firewall-help-cis/comodo-firewall-and-avast-7-t82382.255.html

 

I have never been able to get avast and OA play well...OA never worked well with avast on my machine for some reason,it used to always caused BSOD's

 

Avast is has web filter, OA has a DNS checker/blocker; both work differently so they are compatible but it not meant you will not have slowdown.

avast has a BB , OA an HIPS , again they are different system so still compatible.

finally , you have nothing to disable since nothing will conflict between them. you will have mostly overlapping features.

one day for the fun i did that

 

I ran those 2 just fine.I made the mutual exclusions and i turned off the OA webshield within the main interface.If running with sandboxie i made sure that avast and OA were checked in the internet access and software compatibility sections.

 

additional to exclusions disable sandbox in avast - or hips in OA (program guard)

 

After the release of Avast 7 it began to destabilize my firewall (Privatefirewall) causing it to shut down. After talking to Greg at Privacyware and trying a few things, which did not solve the problem, I reluctantly uninstalled PF and installed OA. My XP desktop's performance took a nose dive. Opening programs/files/webpages took all day to load. I ended up sh*tcanning Avast & OA. I reinstalled PF and added AVG as my A/V. No issues since.


Athlon 64x2 dual core 2.6GHz, 2GB RAM, 750GB HDD, Win 7 32bit, AVG 2013, Privatefirewall, Winpatrol+, Zemana anti-keylogger

 

I've had so many issues with avast that I dumped it for Avira free with it's web shield enabled. It works great with OA with no slowdowns.

 

In Avast set Global Exclusions for oascan.exe, OAsrv.exe, oaui.exe.

Set no exclusions for Avast in OA.
In Programs sort by name and check for and set allow & trust all Avast including the grey (absent) avast.setup.
Firewall:
avast.setup TCP OUT 80
AvastEmUpdate.exe TCP OUT 80
AvastSvc.exe TCP OUT 80,443
AvastSvc.exe TCP BOTH 12080 (for OA Premium, set endpoint 127.0.0.1)
AvastUI.exe TCP OUT 80, 443

No need to disable anything in either app. Works like super-dooper woo ha.

 

Thats an av shutting it down.Hate to think what malware could do.

 

That's why avast is no longer on my pc's, because the A/V became in essence the malware. PF has self-protection, you can't even kill PF in task manager, and if you try the system will lock for a period of time. But in came avast, not only did it screw up PF, but basically every program and app on the system failed to start when asked, or shut down inexplicably while running. A total disaster.

 

I have tried the new avast 8 a couple of times,but unfortunately it was interfering with my network connection and websites were timing out.I thought at first it might be my signal strength,but when i installed comodo again the browsing was just fine.
So it was goodbye to avast.