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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: fuggatroller on December 29, 2019, 09:27:54 AM

Title: Avast url blocked suddenly appear ?
Post by: fuggatroller on December 29, 2019, 09:27:54 AM

I open google my activity site today and this pop up suddenly appear on my screen. I have not and have never visited this website but avast pop up appear on my screen said this site is url phising. Is it bug ? How did this happens ?

(https://i.imgur.com/XdIUnmi.png)

Title: Re: Avast url blocked suddenly appear ?
Post by: Asyn on December 29, 2019, 11:19:04 AM

Sounds like malvertizing. Do you use an ad blocker..?

Title: Re: Avast url blocked suddenly appear ?
Post by: fuggatroller on December 29, 2019, 11:42:36 AM

Quote from: Asyn on December 29, 2019, 11:19:04 AM

Sounds like malvertizing. Do you use an ad blocker..?

Yes i use adblock plus and i use google chrome as my browser. This is so weird.

Just for your information : This pop up appear when i open activity control page in google my activity site. I think the url is : myaccount google com / activitycontrols

Title: Re: Avast url blocked suddenly appear ?
Post by: Asyn on December 29, 2019, 11:50:49 AM

Quote from: fuggatroller on December 29, 2019, 11:42:36 AM

Yes i use adblock plus and i use google chrome as my browser. This is so weird.

I'd suggest to switch to uBO and see if it helps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

Title: Re: Avast url blocked suddenly appear ?
Post by: jefferson sant on January 02, 2020, 11:15:35 PM

Hello.

This is a false positive detection will be corrected.

Quote from: Avast

Our virus specialists have now cleared its reputation in our database.

With URLs this change should be instant, but it might take up to 24 hours with files.