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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Blaydon on February 09, 2013, 01:22:58 AM

Title: Avast constantly scanning same web page http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo
Post by: Blaydon on February 09, 2013, 01:22:58 AM

Avast has been constantly scanning the above web page for three hours now, any ideas why and how I can stop it?

Title: Re: Avast constantly scanning same web page http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo
Post by: DavidR on February 09, 2013, 02:15:47 AM

This If memory serves is for the webrep add-on, so it is going to be fairly active whilst you are browsing. So it isn't scanning that page for hours, it is seeking webrep information (urlinfo) from that link.

I have set the following exclusion in the web shield so that it doesn't scan that as I trust that location, if you accept the risk of making an exclusion this is what can be entered:

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http://ui.ff.avast.com/*
Copy and paste (Add) the content of the above into the web shield exclusions, see image example.

Edit non-critical typo

Title: Re: Avast constantly scanning same web page http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo
Post by: Blaydon on February 09, 2013, 02:22:36 AM

Thanks will do

Title: Re: Avast constantly scanning same web page http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo
Post by: DavidR on February 09, 2013, 02:31:27 AM

You're welcome.

Title: Re: Avast constantly scanning same web page http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo
Post by: glouis42 on March 06, 2013, 03:29:12 PM

I want to remove this completely from being redirected to this URL:   http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo

I kind of like Avast, but If I cant disable this scan, I will have to uninstall it. 

Even when I completely Disable Avast,

I add http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo to the "exclusion List",  the headers seem to be hard coded to follow http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo

I am using Firefox,  I did an about:config and reset ALL references to Avast.

Where can I get Rid of this http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo

thanks and regards,

Gary

Title: Re: Avast constantly scanning same web page http://ui.ff.avast.com/urlinfo
Post by: DavidR on March 06, 2013, 04:51:39 PM

Read my 1st reply in this topic as to what it is doing and that it is related to the WebRep obtaining data on the site/s that you visit. So you can choose to visit a site or not.

Disabling avast would still leave the webrep plug-in/add-on in firefox and it is that which initiates this.