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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on September 12, 2014, 11:30:21 AM
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Every time I open up IE 11. Avast pops up informing me that it has detected an unsafe web browser. Is Avast totally crap or what?
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to answer we need more info then that ......
a screenshot of the popup warning would help ;)
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How does one show a screen shot here as there is no upload of images facility. As I am typing this I am looking underneath the text box for an add attachment button.
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As I am typing this I am looking underneath the text box for an add attachment button.
good .... there you should see Attachments and other options ;)
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good .... there you should see Attachments and other options ;)
THERE IS NO ATTACHMENTS BUTTON. this is GOOD?
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you dont have this? .... see attached pic
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Here is your image
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It's the details that would have been helpful.
Can you expand "Show Details" and post another screen shot ?
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Avast pops up informing me that it has detected an unsafe web browser.
Web browser and search engine (as the pic say) are not same thing.....
IE is a browser .... bing is a search engine
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Is Avast totally crap or what?
You should try to concentrate on getting details right. Details often matter.
Based literally on what you've shown, it's users of Avast who apparently gauge Google UK as unsafe.
Is relying on the opinions of other users en masse to determine what sites are trustworthy the best idea? That's up to you to decide.
There are ways to disable parts of Avast, such as the "Browser protection" component. Go into your Programs and Features control panel, right-click Avast and choose change. Then consider removing some or all the entries from the center column. You'll still be well protected from actual malware as long as you continue to use the Web Shield in the left column.
-Noel
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I think there is are legitimate questions to ask about this.
On the face of it is clearly AVAST which is flagging what looks like the normal Google start page, which milllions of people use as their home page, as being an "unsafe search engine". But all may not be as it seems.
I've just been to the Google start page yet there's no problem for me with Firefox, Opera or IE and the AVAST WebRep icon is showing all OK.
So why is the OP getting that AVAST message?
As the others here have said the important part of the AVAST warning is the "Show Details" button.
That will tell you where it thinks there is a problem.
The fact the warning appears when IE launches with Google as the home page does necessarily mean that Google is the culprit. It is a warning about a particular search engine which is installed on IE. Perhaps it is a dodgy secondary search engine that has been added to IE by the user or, much more likely, by some sneaky malware.
If it is the later then AVAST's or IE's own built in protection may have been stopped it hijacking your home page too.
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I have no add on's and I have not tried to open more than one website using coma or semi colon delimiters. This is a problem thwt does not exists in firefox or any other browser. It should be able to be TURNED OFF as it is annoying.
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There is a details button and next time this CRAP pops up I will get a screen print of it also.
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It should be able to be TURNED OFF as it is annoying.
You have been told that it can be. Are you looking for actual help here?
-Noel
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Here are your avast details against a good browser. Notice that Avast does not supply any information to back up it's claim.
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The only add on in IE11 is Bing
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Click the IE icon on the left side and re-post the image...
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Hello all.
I think I've got the same problem as OP. I've run a full virus scan which hasn't picked anything up, but every time I use google I get a virus alert.
Is it some sort of forwarding malware?
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2qimljq.jpg)
(http://i61.tinypic.com/2w685xc.png)
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Paulotuatail, you're upset that "Browser Cleanup" has put up information you don't agree with...
What merit do you see in continuing to use "Browser Cleanup"?
-Noel
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Hello all.
I think I've got the same problem as OP. I've run a full virus scan which hasn't picked anything up, but every time I use google I get a virus alert.
Is it some sort of forwarding malware?
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2qimljq.jpg)
(http://i61.tinypic.com/2w685xc.png)
The problem isn't with google but with the link you select to click in a google search.
You could have used Bing or Yahoo and if you had selected the same search result, you would have gotten the same warning.
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Bob, I didn't read his post that way. I read it as (paraphrasing) "Whenever I do a Google Search and it puts up results I get a 'malware blocked' warning".
Unfortunately I don't have specific advice to offer, though I wouldn't choose to run Google software on purpose myself.
-Noel
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Bob, I didn't read his post that way. I read it as (paraphrasing) "Whenever I do a Google Search and it puts up results I get a 'malware blocked' warning".
Unfortunately I don't have specific advice to offer, though I wouldn't choose to run Google software on purpose myself.
-Noel
Then maybe you need to re-read his post and look at the screenshots. Not using Google is a personal problem certainly not
something shared by most.
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Please show me where his screenshot implies he's clicked on a link. Hint: Do YOU see any results in the links there that say jaoohqvqda.ru in the URL?
Beyond that, note the little green checkmark bubbles.
This may be a situation where the browser is infected somehow. But we don't have enough information to know that yet.
-Noel
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That's how I read it too. He apparently hasn't clicked on any of the individual search results he's getting the AVAST blocking message on the actual results of the Google search for: "Hello" itself.
Maybe there IS something nasty in the search results, perhaps a malicious link which AVAST is detecting. But otherwise, if this is being repeated with other unrelated Google searches, then that shouldn't be happening should it?
According to a Swedish web site that URL shown maybe connected with a tracker cookie.
It is likely rubbish and nothing like this but I'd still use CCleaner and wipe all my cookies. Then also use CCleaner to see what is in Start Up, particularly looking at what is listed under the browser tab the OP is using. Anything with a .ru Russian domain code that you don't recognise there I'd be suspicious. If you're not sure what is safe to disable/delete ask.
If that does not come up with anything maybe it is buried deeper so you may need to look in Autoruns and/or use the "msconfig" command.
Finally a full Malwarebytes scan followed by the same for AVAST will at least mean that as far as it is possible to be sure the problem isn't caused by something that has unwantedly sneaked onto your PC.
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@NoelC,
Your assumption that this is or must be related to Browser Cleanup happens to be off the mark.
Nothing in the post of Tripig indicates that he was using that tool.
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The big "Browser Cleanup" banner in the screen grab in Paulotuatail's response (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=154600.msg1130132#msg1130132) led me to think that perhaps the Browser Cleanup component was involved in his complaint. :) We note also that he had been complaining that it couldn't be turned off.
This kind of confusion can happen in a thread where several people post questions/problems on different subjects. I'm just responding to what's written...
-Noel
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All wrong assumptions.
The issue is related to a malicious extension (streamer) installed in Google Chrome responsible for these alerts.
Was reported in virus and worms, and took a Russian user quite some searching to get at the culprit of it.
Uninstall of the particular extension cures this behavior.
polonus
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All wrong assumptions.
Not to put too fine a point on the phrase "wrong assumptions, but we can easily see that Paulotuatail posted screenshots of the Internet Explorer browser. You might say that perhaps that malicious extension you mentioned might have an IE counterpart, though in a later post Paulotuatail reports he does not have any Add-ons besides Bing.
-Noel
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So that streamer issue could really be browser independent.
The issue was also mentioned on Russian forums
and confirmed to be solved by uninstalling that streaming agent.
polonus