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Offline midnight

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Malicious URL Blocked
« on: April 23, 2013, 12:29:11 PM »
Does Avast do this just to scare people enough to upgrade to the paid version?

I ran a full scan and no threats were detected.
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true indian

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Re: Malicious URL Blocked
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2013, 12:37:10 PM »
Avast shields,in your case it was network shield, just saved your computer from being infected,you will get that page you showed in screenshot only when you click more details.  ;D

The Main moto of avast shields is to prevent you from getting infected and it does that by aborting the connection and blocking the infection right away when its a case of web based attack and then the infection cant touch your machine  ;D
 
If you right click on the avast ball in your tray and hit show last pop up message you can re-review the last popup alert from avast.
« Last Edit: April 23, 2013, 12:43:13 PM by true indian »

Offline midnight

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Re: Malicious URL Blocked
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2013, 12:46:20 PM »
I was on the forum when this popped up.

Typed the wrong date on the image.
« Last Edit: April 23, 2013, 12:48:19 PM by -midnight »
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true indian

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Re: Malicious URL Blocked
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2013, 12:53:05 PM »
« Last Edit: April 23, 2013, 12:55:20 PM by true indian »

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Re: Malicious URL Blocked
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2013, 05:48:43 PM »
Hi trueindian,

Based on a blacklist and only blacklisted once here: http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/bluehost.com/

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