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Consumer Products => Avast Mac Security => Topic started by: andrew.purpura on February 15, 2023, 11:34:45 PM
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Hello,
I can repeatedly getting a message on web shield and it pops up about every 5 minutes. It's starting to make system unusable it pops up so much. I'm not sure if it's a real threat or if something is on my mac?
Message on web shield:
Multiple web threats secured. We've blocked a threat URL:Phishing on https://spacehop.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/B660-vs-Z690.jpeg from being downloaded.
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Hello,
such repeated reports are usually popping up because browsers often remember your browsing history and attempt to access such pages in some cases. Typically this happens when you create a new tab, or type something into a search bar. The browser likes to pre-load stuff it thinks you will need, and this means that sometimes a web page that has been accessed long time ago can be re-loaded by the browser again and again.
While Avast Web Shield protects you, and you should be safe, the popups are very annoying; but there is no good solution for this on our part. It is typically enough to clear your browser's caches and/or history, so that the browser forgets the page and stops loading it.
Kind regards,
Ondrej Kolacek
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Hi there Ondrej,
I work for https://spacehop.com/ (https://spacehop.com/) and I am 100% certain that my site is not a threat, there is no malware on the site or the server, etc. Why is Avast flagging one of my URL's as a Phishing attempt for Andrew??? (thanks btw for visiting the site, Andrew!).
I'm really confused here... can you please advise?
Thanks,
Alan
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Hi there Ondrej,
I work for https://spacehop.com/ (https://spacehop.com/) and I am 100% certain that my site is not a threat, there is no malware on the site or the server, etc. Why is Avast flagging one of my URL's as a Phishing attempt for Andrew??? (thanks btw for visiting the site, Andrew!).
I'm really confused here... can you please advise?
Thanks,
Alan
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