Virtualbox traffic appears as avast traffic

[Pichu0102]

For some reason, in per app bandwidth, Virtualbox's network traffic is seen as avast's network traffic. I do have avast installed, but why is Whatpulse thinking avast is doing the traffic, not Virtualbox?

[smitmartijn]

The client looks for the internet stream and the program that opened it, is it possible that you're using avast as a firewall? It may proxy all traffic through the program, which basically means avast is actually the one doing the traffic..

[Pichu0102]

(10-21-2013 06:12 PM)smitmartijn Wrote:  The client looks for the internet stream and the program that opened it, is it possible that you're using avast as a firewall? It may proxy all traffic through the program, which basically means avast is actually the one doing the traffic..

Unless VirtualBox is set up to proxy through avast automatically, I don't think so. All other applications appear just fine under per-app bandwidth, just not VirtualBox.

[Inquizitor]

I've experienced this myself. It's a 'feature' of the Web Shield component of Avast.