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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Telegraph_Sam on April 26, 2014, 12:53:49 PM
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I regularly use Yahoo Mail and the login link is bookmarked. For some weeks now whenever I log in on the usual screen a yellow warning pop-up appears:
"This is probably not the site you are looking for!
You attempted ... uk.mg40.mail.yahoo.com ...
but instead ... www.yahoo.com ...
Proceed anyway? .. or Back to safety?"
The source does not state Avast but by a process of elimination and going by the colo(u)r Avast is the prime suspect.
If I "proceed" I get to my mail but the https is crossed out.
If I "go back to safety" the login screen reappears. I can get to the mail (as normal) only by refreshing the screen (which sometimes does not work)
I have no reason (to date) to believe that my login has been compromised but the warning is unsettling.
- Is this Avast?
- How can I check if the warning is justified?
- If it is, what can I do about it?
- If it isn't, how do I disable it?
If have recently switched from XP to W7 but I cannot say if this alarm started from the date of the switch. I suspect that it pre-dated it.
Appreciate if someone could sort me out, tks.
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Abort and terminate this thread: Problem solved by changing the Yahoo login bookmark. Obvious in retrospect but only after going public
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- Is this Avast?
- How can I check if the warning is justified?
all avast popups / warnings should have avast logo and name at top of it
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On reflection I suspect that this was an (anonymous) Google Chrome warning