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18 Hour Period Of Technical & AI Challenges

MelWaller

Published on February 17, 2026

Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.

18 Hour Period Of Technical & AI Challenges

Hello everyone,

If our challenges are also an indication of the Success that lies ahead if we persist through them, then I am all but guaranteed to be super successful in the future.

Perhaps one of the most frustrating days of my life.

It all started when my Avast VPN suddenly blocked Claude and I could no longer access the site. Not easy to contact Avast Support from their website. A google search gave me a support number to call.

Avast Support was given permission to access my PC to try to fix the problem.

I was able to get access to Claude on other browsers finally, but not Brave where I do most of my work.

During the process other things started to go wrong and I eventually lost my PC phone and my connection with Avast.

So I was left with having Claude help me and down the rabbit hole I went.

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Very frustrating working with Claude.

Although meant in a positive kind of way, Claude used profanity that shocked me.

Long story short after countless hours of changing settings, deleting data, using Command Prompts...etc, etc. things finally got back to normal.

I did uninstall Avast which caused problems as a result.

I finally now have a new VPN with Proton where I already had a 2nd email acct.

With the new VPN, I had access once again to sites I use in the USA.

I learned a lot from all the ways Claude was having me try to fix things.

I hope everything is working right now here some 18 hours later. Time will tell.

Now I will start working on the day to day Schedule that Cowork set up for Promoting Wealthy Affiliate and building my Business Empire.

Keep moving forward. Keep learning. Take massive action and NEVER Give Up!

To Our Success!

Mel Waller

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