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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #32 on: June 22, 2017, 08:55:27 PM »
Strange that it is not loading because we have customers on it all day and it is working for me off site. 
I have contacted yandex and they have cleared my site but I guess it's not updated. 
I contacted the other too but have not heard back from them expect for sucuri, they want money to remove me.  That doesn't seem right.  Is there anything else I can do?

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #33 on: June 22, 2017, 09:11:53 PM »
You could start with fixing the Wordpress issues and the certificate issue.

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2017, 12:18:52 PM »
allegiantcare[.]com is unblocked since yesterday, 17:42 CEST, but I strongly suggest following advice of other people commenting on this issue.

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2017, 01:26:25 PM »
No direct threat coming from website, so it was unblocked by Avast Team: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1498213066446

However for the Word Press settings User Enumeration and Directory Listing should be set disabled.

The server at Verizon's is set to speak too loudly Server: Apache/2.4.23 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.0.2j PHP/7.1.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.2 (excessive server info proliferation, we call this issue). PHP also can be' a can of worms' (vuln.).

For this external link we see a secure cookies warning, clickjacking warning and a http to https warning: https://asafaweb.com/Scan?Url=go.microsoft.com%2Ffwlink%2F%3Flinkid%3D66138%26clcid%3D0x409 - was on: https://aw-snap.info/file-viewer/?protocol=secure&tgt=accreditnet2.urac.org&ref_sel=GSP2&ua_sel=ff&fs=1 (hhtp blocked for shared hosting)!

Suspicious urls with this external link: https://aw-snap.info/file-viewer/?protocol=not-secure&tgt=www.surveymonkey.com&ref_sel=GSP2&ua_sel=ff&fs=1  with particular issues and warnings here: https://asafaweb.com/Scan?Url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surveymonkey.com

So you have issues for the website and you have to take up certain proliferation issues with provider Verizon's (not maintaining best policies because of incompetence, not being interested to tackle issues or other factors, which is not offering you the best of infrastructure, a shame really but what can we do when regulators turn a blind eye and commerce rules big time  ;).

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #36 on: November 08, 2017, 01:52:59 PM »
Hi, i need help please!!

My website is block with URL:Mal by avast, how i resolve it?

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #37 on: November 08, 2017, 02:02:52 PM »
which website? Post a link here or at least a printscreen of the detection ;)

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #38 on: November 14, 2017, 04:29:03 AM »
We are in the same boat - I have numerous clients reporting our site is unsafe, but as the IT Director, of app.espace.cool - I can guarantee we are safe and behind a secure firewall at LiquidWeb.  It's really starting to impact our business.  We serve many large churches in the US and they are soon going to be moving to other anti-virus software if we can't get someone from Avast to answer our false detection report.  I've seen in 3 separate emails and even called.  Was told someone would call me right back.. that was 3 days ago.. still waiting.  PLEASE HELP!

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #39 on: November 14, 2017, 05:05:46 AM »
We are in the same boat - I have numerous clients reporting our site is unsafe, but as the IT Director, of app.espace.cool - I can guarantee we are safe and behind a secure firewall at LiquidWeb.  It's really starting to impact our business.  We serve many large churches in the US and they are soon going to be moving to other anti-virus software if we can't get someone from Avast to answer our false detection report.  I've seen in 3 separate emails and even called.  Was told someone would call me right back.. that was 3 days ago.. still waiting.  PLEASE HELP!
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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #40 on: November 14, 2017, 07:47:07 AM »
I have removed app.espace[.]cool/account/login from our blacklist ;)

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #41 on: November 14, 2017, 12:45:54 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D - Thank you!

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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2018, 04:34:30 AM »
If Avast is reporting MAL:URL on the basis of the domain name being on a blacklist would you PLEASE, PLEASE display the name of the blacklist on which it was found?

When the Avast popup says "...because it was infected with URL:Mal", if it is really just reporting that the target website is being blocked because it is listed on a blacklist, then why not display "...because it is listed on the Barracuda blacklist" (or whatever blacklist)? 

Or display "...because it is listed on the one or more blacklists" and list the blacklists in the "details" section.

If I have not understood URL:Mal then I apologize but it seems to get a lot of people running around wondering how to remove the "URL:Mal infection".  Again, if URL:Mal is simply indicating a blacklist entry then calling it an infection causes a waste of time and effort.
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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #43 on: January 29, 2018, 06:36:17 PM »
Blacklisted infection entries are there for your protection.  Sometimes, but not often, these blocks are false positives, but these can occur when a known blacklisted site shares an IP address with many websites and is itself not infected with malware.

Some real-time security websites are listed below to verify an URL:Mal block:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/url
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/
http://urlquery.net/

Please treat blacklisted sites with due care and caution, always.
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Re: Website reported as blocked for URL:Mal, report false infection?
« Reply #44 on: January 29, 2018, 08:33:27 PM »
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If Avast is reporting MAL:URL on the basis of the domain name being on a blacklist would you PLEASE, PLEASE display the name of the blacklist on which it was found?
   
Avast is using there own Blacklist


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If I have not understood URL:Mal then I apologize but it seems to get a lot of people running around wondering how to remove the "URL:Mal infection".  Again, if URL:Mal is simply indicating a blacklist entry then calling it an infection causes a waste of time and effort.   
You can only remove it if you own the website, and there are many reasons why a website is blacklisted, it does not have to be infected