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adotd:

--- Quote from: adotd on September 21, 2012, 01:12:26 PM ---Hi  -midnight

Follow the guide and attach the logs.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

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Malwarebytes
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Best Regards

Anthony

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Follow the following  8)

DavidR:
@ -midnight
Is this a program that you have installed C:\ProgramData\Anti-phishing Domain Advi... (presumably the last bit is Advisor) ?

DavidR:
Try finding and disabling the Anti-phishing Domain Advisor and see if this is what is causing the problem.

Personally I don't see the need for a dedicated Anti-phishing application as the avast Network Shield malicious sites list is likely to cover phishing sites as many are likely to be malicious. Depending on your browser, it may have anti-phishing built in. You can also consider using the OpenDNS.com as your DNS server it has a dashboard function with many categories you can block at DNS server level, Phishing being one and other parental control settings, http://www.opendns.com/start/ for more info. 

midnight:

--- Quote from: DavidR on September 21, 2012, 05:02:46 PM ---Try finding and disabling the Anti-phishing Domain Advisor and see if this is what is causing the problem.

Personally I don't see the need for a dedicated Anti-phishing application as the avast Network Shield malicious sites list is likely to cover phishing sites as many are likely to be malicious. Depending on your browser, it may have anti-phishing built in. You can also consider using the OpenDNS.com as your DNS server it has a dashboard function with many categories you can block at DNS server level, Phishing being one and other parental control settings, http://www.opendns.com/start/ for more info.

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Why would this even be installed on my new computer if it was going to cause a problem?

DavidR:
I haven't a clue why it would be installed on a new computer aside from not knowing what that computer was, many manufacturers load their computers with junk, looks good in a long list of free software.

They also haven't a clue what you are going to subsequently install.

Dell in the past have had lots of form for installing cr4pware, there was a tool built to remove it, Decrapifier. 
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=remove+crapware

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