I'm trying out Avast Free on win7 home 64bits, Avast ver. 24.1.6099, Virus defs. ver. 240221-8.
I'm getting a Threat Secured popup at 16 minutes after every hour. The popups say a connection was aborted by svchost.exe to
http://190.2.139.23/wpad.dat and that a Trojan Horse threat was involved.
The system log always shows (WinHttpAutoProxySvc) having been started at that time.
Also, the Task Scheduler shows ...\AvastBrowserUpdate.exe scheduled to run at that time, and if I run it manually from the Task Scheduler, I also get the popup. I get another similar popup after each boot, no others.
Scans of my system by both Avast and Malwarebytes do not find any infections. What to do?