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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2015, 07:12:39 AM »
Well, here goes nothing...going to speedguide.net and with this address info, the ip address is allocated for Merck  and co. in Woodbridge, N.J. With that said, attempted to do a trace route, and came up with this:

traceroute to 54.149.18.169 (54.149.18.169), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets:

1  68-67-73-17.static.as19844.net (68.67.73.17)  0.275 ms  0.316 ms  0.401 ms
2  ve103.e2-13.core-b.jcvnflcq.as19844.net (198.205.127.13)  4.692 ms  4.729 ms  4.785 ms
3  64.125.193.61.available.above.net (64.125.193.61)  6.183 ms  6.188 ms  6.180 ms
4  ae4.mpr4.atl6.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.31.198)  6.818 ms  6.382 ms  6.413 ms
5  ae2.cr1.dca2.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.25.45)  17.290 ms  17.301 ms  17.345 ms
6  ae6.er1.iad10.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.20.118)  18.194 ms  18.271 ms  18.208 ms
7  ae9.er5.iad10.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.31.142)  18.001 ms  18.005 ms  17.996 ms
8  zayo-amazon.iad10.us.zip.zayo.com (64.125.12.30)  18.126 ms  18.082 ms  18.091 ms
9  72.21.220.17 (72.21.220.17)  75.952 ms  75.907 ms 205.251.244.9 (205.251.244.9)  76.522 ms
10  205.251.245.137 (205.251.245.137)  76.166 ms  76.128 ms  76.134 ms
11  54.239.41.23 (54.239.41.23)  75.767 ms 54.239.41.27 (54.239.41.27)  76.873 ms 54.239.41.29 (54.239.41.29)  75.762 ms
12  205.251.232.209 (205.251.232.209)  77.275 ms 205.251.232.203 (205.251.232.203)  76.599 ms 205.251.232.197 (205.251.232.197)
   76.280 ms
13  205.251.232.61 (205.251.232.61)  79.247 ms  79.540 ms  77.304 ms
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...not much to say except for more addresses...!

Furthurmore, wont paste, but can find other neat stuff concerning this address/s using same site, and going to Related tools at the near bottom of page, clicking on Network Tools, clicking every box in the Host Info and Connectivity on top of page using addx 54.149.18.169, and voila...Amazon Technologies Inc. ... for the OrgName.  Not the Amazon I was expecting for shopping!  Something to research in a bit, but first why it took to ping the addrx 4 seconds (4000 ms) from Wash, D.C.?? Nothing about Firefox yet except for the popup avast put on all my screens about 20-30 times.  After confirming, or better yet, understanding a good possibility of a false positive by Reading alot of shtuff...or getting sick of the warning, the next step is to silence the popup, which is not the brightest thing I've ever done...

  To silence popup, since I believe it is a false positive, I went to avast User Interface by right clicking notification area avast icon:
-clicked Settings
-clicked Exclusions
-clicked URLs tab and
-entered (without quotes) "https://54.149.18.169:443/1.0/sync/1.5*"  on the (enter address) bar, and made a note of it on my monitor to keep it in mind of the exclusion temporarily while avast! and co. works on the true meaning of the action/s.
Hope this works for all.
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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2015, 07:57:15 AM »
Same thing happened to me starting last night around 9PM CST.

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2015, 08:11:42 AM »
...yea, I noticed it here about 8:00p.m. est

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2015, 09:14:53 AM »
Started about 6:50 PM EST here.

FFox flags hxxps://54.149.18.169/1.0/sync/1.5 as Untrusted/Invalid certificate

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2015, 09:25:38 AM »
Still happening... Is anyone from avast! looking into it? Thx
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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2015, 09:47:45 AM »
Hi to all. I have the very same problem from tonight. I dont get if Sync is still working. Firefox show me as connected, anyway...

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2015, 09:58:18 AM »
Hello,

we will remove this detection from our black list but there was a bit problem because this domain is also hosting of newly generated malicious sites, it was a block reason.

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2015, 11:50:49 AM »
Wow!  Thanks for everything Sirmer...Sync works on my comps...i can take that sticky off my monitor later on today...
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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2015, 12:23:29 PM »
I was also relieved to know others are getting this too. I haven't got it for a while tought so I guess they fixed it.

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2015, 12:55:45 PM »
Hello,

we will remove this detection from our black list but there was a bit problem because this domain is also hosting of newly generated malicious sites, it was a block reason.

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2015, 01:10:22 PM »
Hello,

we will remove this detection from our black list but there was a bit problem because this domain is also hosting of newly generated malicious sites, it was a block reason.

Thx for responding to the issue.

Ditto. :)

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2015, 06:18:01 PM »
Thank you for (finally) responding to this important issue.

So are we to understand that Avast is stating that, for an essential service, Mozilla is sharing an IP address with people hosting "malicious sites"?  Is that correct?

Was it the URL or IP address that Avast blocked, or both?

Has Avast notified Mozilla?

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Re: avast! blocking Firefox Sync
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2015, 05:20:55 AM »
Is Team Avast willing to provide some details?