networking - Chrome: waiting for available socket
2014-07
Google Chrome opens twitter stream without pictures and writing below "waiting for available sockets":
I have multiple connections opened, most of the are by avp
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avp.exe is possibly either Kaspersky antivirus or a trojan that has infected your PC. There's no need for a genuine antivirus program to make connections to so many different external IP-addresses. Alternatively it may be part of a peer-to-peer program you have installed that is overloading your system.
Kaspersky avp.exe does intercept web-page connections to check for viral payloads, so the avp.exe lines may just be a misreporting (arguably) of connections made by chrome. In which case the real problem may lie elsewhere.
If you have Kaspersky installed, I'd try uninstalling Kaspersky and installing either the latest version or a competitor, perhaps just Microsoft Security Essentials, at least until the problem is resolved.
If you think it is a trojan, follow the guidance in How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
There have been problems reported with Chrome that have similar symptoms
You can visit chrome://net-internals/#sockets
and try flushing connections. Then retry accessing Twitter.
I'm using Snow Leopard and I've just downloaded Google Chrome for Mac. However it doesn't load any page:
This webpage is not available.
Error 104 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_FAILED): The attempt to connect to the server failed.
I've googled about it but I had no luck, only answers for Windows. Needless to say I have no firewalls and every other browser or application can connect to the internet.
This sounds like a firewall issue.
Are you using Zone Alarm or something similar that has been misconfigured to block Chrome?