LOL I was almost responding to myself... Well yeah.. This issue needs some fixing guys. Apparently I thought enough of it to respond to this...
I too sell Avast for my I.T. business and use it for my home systems. I was using Avast Internet Security on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and had this...
I can confirm it is Avast Anti-Virus. If you disable Avast shields you will notice you get past the 6% mark and everything loads up. Oddly enough...
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