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How to get a site off the Avast Blacklist
« on: October 04, 2016, 06:02:04 PM »
I manage a site www.nicolehenry.com. It is currently being blacklisted by Avast. It has been scrubbed and is clean of any viruses or malware. How do we go about getting it off the blacklist? Thanks for your help!

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Re: How to get a site off the Avast Blacklist
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2016, 06:57:05 PM »
Site has most likely be blocked because it was hosted on afraid dot org.
Steer away from that hoster as subdomains could not be considered to be your own.

Ask an avast team member to look into the matter.
We here are just volunteers with relevant knowledge, unblocking is only open to avast team members.
To verify the info of my report, see: http://www.dnsinspect.com/nicolehenry.com/1475599843

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Use NoScript, a limited user account and a virtual machine and be safe(r)!

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Re: How to get a site off the Avast Blacklist
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2016, 07:06:26 PM »
From avast:
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Any domain hosted on afraid.org can be used by other persons for dns hosting without your control. When nobody has control on subdomains of domain (DNS hijacking), we block the whole domain in order to protect our users.
Use their paid services or use a DNS host that takes security serious.

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Re: How to get a site off the Avast Blacklist
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2016, 09:26:56 AM »
This blacklist was indeed because we spotted other malicious subdomains on different IPs (DNS hijack). Change your DNS hosting or pay for the "stealth" option at afraid.org, then write here and I will unblock it.