Is this sitecorrect legitimate?

[Drezair]

I've been getting this popup a lot lately. Whenever I return to my computer from being away for an extended period of time I get this pop up no matter what site i try to visit.

http://i.imgur.com/9IMqp.jpg

Is this legitimate? Is this a feature that is built into avast? I cannot find an option for it anywhere.

[DavidR]

Yes, SiteCorrect is a function within the WebRep - AvastUI, Additional Protection, Browser Protection, Settings SiteCorrect.

Though I have never actually seen the popup notification, it is looking for sites that you may have accidentally typed incorrectly (so it will ask). The reason for this is there are a lot of sites out there which use typo squatting to drive traffic to their site should you make a typo on a well-known name. In some cases these typo squatting sites could well be malicious.

Whilst reddit.com is correct it could well be a typo for say readit.com.

[Lisandro]

I was trying to test SiteCorrect and accidentally I've come to this

[polonus]

See the suspicious script found here: http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/7f778851b3944a850fa43a7a1b545144-1354372463

Potentially Suspicious files according to Quttera: 2
/index.html
File size[byte]:   
94602
Threat type:   
Potentially Suspicious
Details:   
Our investigation system run out of memory used for execution process.
Reason:   
Reached execution stack limit. Stack content: [ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ]
MD5:   
9E2C783F014A1548F92322D6EBB15E3B
Scan duration[sec]:   
1.646000
plus.google.com/?gpsrc=ogpy0&tab=wX
File size[byte]:   
73614
Threat type:   
Potentially Suspicious
Details:   
Detected hidden reference to external web resource.
Reason:   
Detected generation of hidden DOM element [iframe].
MD5:   
1CAAD74A7915C1BF8313961FDCF4E74E
Scan duration[sec]:   
0.24100

Data fron Quttera scan for that particular site...

polonus

[Drezair]

Ok, Thank you for the advice. I thought it was part of avast and after googling for as much information as I could I saw that it was. What concerned me was the pop-up for whatever site I went too. Even going to google.com set it off. That is what concerned me.

Thank You again for your help.

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

For me using firefox it has never appeared, but then again it don't make many mistakes and most of the urls I visit are from links.