I have been experiencing pervasive blockage of web sites such as Amazon, Facebook, Feedly, and other mainstream sites. This is on a Lenovo laptop running Windows 7 Pro via the latest Chrome browser.
After an afternoon spent troubleshooting, I tried uninstralling NOD32. Immediately the problem stopped.
There were no warnings or notices about this -- the sites simply would not load. "Connection reset" was the typical message. It looked like a DNS problem, but no amount of troubleshooting in that realm made any difference.
Also, it made no difference to turn off "real time protection" in the NOD32 configuration screen. Only a complete uninstall made any difference.
What to do? I have turned on Windows Defender for the moment, but would like to have NOD32 working since I just paid for a one-year renewal which is presently going to waste.
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