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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: David1131 on August 29, 2021, 01:54:06 PM

Title: Avast Blocking Site for "Phishing" Despite Exception (It's a false flag, BTW)
Post by: David1131 on August 29, 2021, 01:54:06 PM

Hello!

Avast keeps blocking me from accessing a site as it's flagged as a "phishing" site.

Happened before on this same site and was indeed a false flag and Avast corrected it earlier. In any case I know the developer and they already contacted Avast to rectify it, etc. which may take time (last time it also took a while and Avast wrote an apology message to them).

Anyway that's not the point... the point is, I still can't access the site despite putting in the site as an exception in Menu > Settings > Exceptions > Add Exception and despite clearing cache.

Any other way I can disable Avast blocking this site, so that I can access the site?  :o

Title: Re: Avast Blocking Site for "Phishing" Despite Exception (It's a false flag, BTW)
Post by: Asyn on August 29, 2021, 03:01:32 PM

Hi, does it get blocked via AV (web shield) or via AOS (browser add-on)..?

Title: Re: Avast Blocking Site for "Phishing" Despite Exception (It's a false flag, BTW)
Post by: David1131 on August 30, 2021, 04:47:15 AM

Thanks for the reply!

Didn't know that was a separate thing; but anyway I checked and indeed it's the AOS browser extension which is blocking the site.

Anything I can do aside from completely disabling the browser extension? (I still do want it to block other site's if they're perceived threats).

Title: Re: Avast Blocking Site for "Phishing" Despite Exception (It's a false flag, BTW)
Post by: Asyn on August 30, 2021, 08:59:57 AM

Quote from: David1131 on August 30, 2021, 04:47:15 AM

Anything I can do aside from completely disabling the browser extension? (I still do want it to block other site's if they're perceived threats).

You can report a suspected FP (File/Website) here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

Title: Re: Avast Blocking Site for "Phishing" Despite Exception (It's a false flag, BTW)
Post by: David1131 on August 30, 2021, 11:50:22 AM

The Avast block has been lifted with respect to this site.  Thanks all
(Update)

Title: Re: Avast Blocking Site for "Phishing" Despite Exception (It's a false flag, BTW)
Post by: Asyn on August 30, 2021, 11:52:08 AM

You're welcome.