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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Stylianos4 on February 02, 2023, 02:36:55 PM
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In the past 10 days, every day i keep getting this message from Avast free Antivirus:
THREAT SECURED
We safely aborted connection on popcorntime-update.xyz because it was infected with URL:Blacklist
The problem is that i never opened this site. I use Google chrome so i reset my browser and i disabled the feature "Preload pages for faster browsing and searching". I also blocked this site from the "Block Site" extention from google chrome.
I runned Smart Scan and avast finds nothing but after all that i keep getting this message
From site check i am getting this:
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/popcorntime-update.xyz
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It might not be your browser but some other software trying to connect to that url. Probably Popcorn Time.
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Sometime in the past i think i had downloaded popcorn but i had deleted many years from now. I am getting this messge in the last few days.
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Run a second opinion scan with Hitman Pro or Norton Power Eraser.
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Did you properly uninstall it? Maybe an updater / update service is still present and active. If so remove it. It could be it has been connecting to this url for years but only now it is on a blacklist you're getting alerts.