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fractactical genius
For me, disabling the antivirus entirely wasn't necessary. I run Avast! too, and was able to get on fine after disabling the Web Shield only.It's just the web shield, not the whole antivirus. And it was just in avast's case, it's not proved that other antiviruses give the same problem.
Try temporarily disabling your antivirus. Socket.io has proved to be more stable in my case, I haven't got a single random disconnection since PS started to use it again.
For all those who don't know how to do this: To disable your Web Shield (for Avast, that is), open it, go to Real Time Shields on the left, click Web Shield, and hit Stop on the process. This should disable it and allow you to get on with Chrome or whatever browser you're having trouble with.