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Title: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: duran14142000 on April 13, 2019, 06:40:16 PM
https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/4562dd888bc56d0c1af66d9f5bcf05de06f4ea2934d810a8998dfddcde852484/detection (https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/4562dd888bc56d0c1af66d9f5bcf05de06f4ea2934d810a8998dfddcde852484/detection)
Title: Re: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: Asyn on April 13, 2019, 06:57:49 PM
-> https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/marvel.fandom.com

You can report a suspected FP (File/Website) here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php
Title: Re: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: cyrthulem on April 13, 2019, 07:45:30 PM
I am having problems as well with the Marvel Fandom (Wiki).  The first time I accessed the site today the site was blocked by AVAST due to URL:Phishing and just recently it was blocked due to HTML:RedirME-inf [Trj]
Title: Re: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: xraiderv18 on April 14, 2019, 02:58:19 AM
I'm seeing false positives on any of the fandom wiki sites I've tried visiting, my last successful visit was at 6:58pm eastern time.
Title: Re: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: Jeff.D on April 14, 2019, 01:46:45 PM
I too have been hit with this and many other false positives. I have found that the webshield aspect of Avast and other anti-virus program are almost always false positives. Now that might be because I haven't tried to access the truly fishy websites and therefore it just seems that 99% of sites blocked are false positives.

I added the marvel fandom wiki site as an exemption. When I did that it allowed me to open the page but then avast displays a "warning" that the site "may have damaged this computer". I am given one option to "take me out of here". It does not allow a closing of the warning, a "allow access anyway" or anything else.
Title: Re: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: Milos on April 15, 2019, 10:44:12 AM
Hello,
the URL was unblocked.

Milos
Title: Re: false positive marvel wiki site
Post by: mchain on April 16, 2019, 05:12:35 PM
I too have been hit with this and many other false positives. I have found that the webshield aspect of Avast and other anti-virus program are almost always false positives. Now that might be because I haven't tried to access the truly fishy websites and therefore it just seems that 99% of sites blocked are false positives.

I added the marvel fandom wiki site as an exemption. When I did that it allowed me to open the page but then avast displays a "warning" that the site "may have damaged this computer". I am given one option to "take me out of here". It does not allow a closing of the warning, a "allow access anyway" or anything else.
The block window is from Avast Online Security.