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Potential adware at btrill.com
« on: April 19, 2017, 03:02:47 PM »
I'm using Open DNS and when I look at my blocked domains report, it shows lots of entries for this domain - see below. Open DNS identifies it as AdWare, but Avast doesn't find it. Can anyone help?

Blocked domains
geo-um.btrll.com   
vast.bp38xxxxx.btrll.com   
pix.btrll.com   
shim.btrll.com   
segs.btrll.com   

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Re: Potential adware at btrill.com
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2017, 03:10:26 PM »
If OpenDNS block them, then i guess your avast never see them as they are blocked before they reach your computer. And yes they are advertisement domains

You may need to turn off OpenDNS to test

Anyway if you have something you think avast should block
How to report  > https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438

« Last Edit: April 19, 2017, 03:17:20 PM by Pondus »

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Re: Potential adware at btrill.com
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2017, 03:16:53 PM »
We do not block adware domains, only the (PE) files that are downloaded from them.

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Re: Potential adware at btrill.com
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2017, 04:46:20 PM »
Well btrll.com is also blocked by the firefox uBlock Origin add-on.
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Re: Potential adware at btrill.com
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2017, 08:04:43 AM »
Doesn't the fact that numerous attempts from my computer TO access the brill.com website indicate my computer is infected?

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Re: Potential adware at btrill.com
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2017, 09:38:56 AM »
Doesn't the fact that numerous attempts from my computer TO access the brill.com website indicate my computer is infected?

Not necessarily many/most sites that you browse access 3rd party sites and some of those will be accessing btrll.com. My image comes from Yahoo, so there are many legitimate sites accessing it.
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