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I have to deactivate the whole Avast (Virusscanner + Firewall) that I works not just the firewall.

If I have Avast activated I can't even change and save the changes in the server settings of SABnzbd, have to deactivate it for that too.

Maybe I can try out a different "hostname" from easynews in the settings of SABnzbd which Avast finds "secure" so it doesn't block it?

What do you think?

I know that, I have more services from Avast, Anti-virus, firewall etc. I opened up the ports and gave Sabnzbd all possible rights there is, and two days ago everything worked. Yeah if I don't find a solution I have to deactivate the firewall from Avast and leave the rest on and activate the windows...

I will contact Avast directly and try to find a solution with them, it's not illegal to use SAbnzbd so I can look with them, maybe they find a solution. On windows it's safer to have an antivir and till now everything worked with avast, so I have to find a solution. Thanks for your suggestions. Mayb...

I know it's not their fault, it's Avast's fault, just didn't know what else to try

I just don't understand why it suddenly changed without doing an update. Tried now in Avast to open up the port 993 (which I use now) for SABnzbd, but didn't work, but I saw that the port 443 was open in Avast for an earlier version of SABNzbd (4.0.3). So maybe I could try with a other newsreader wh...

Thanks for the fast reply. So the port 993 works just without avast. With avast the error code when I test the server: "Could not connect to news easynews com on port 993. It appears that news easynews com operates as a web server (port 80), possibly an indexer, not a usenet server. You have to...

Hi, today with Sabnzbd 4.4.1 the "Cannot connect to server news easynews com [Server name does not resolve]" came up, yesterday there was not problem. Changed the Certificate verification level to Medium in Sabnzbd 4.4.1 but with Avast activated the problem stays. When I deactivate Avast, ...