Author Topic: trying to link yahoo mail accounts is stopped by Avast  (Read 1908 times)

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trying to link yahoo mail accounts is stopped by Avast
« on: January 19, 2018, 10:14:24 PM »
I really need to link a work address to my personal address in Yahoo. Every time I try I get an Avast message that says :  "Threat secured. We've safely aborted connection on accountlink.www.yahoo.com because it was infected with URL: Phishing." It then offers to scan my PC. There are so many functions on Avast I don't know how to get around this - Is there an area I can type in the acountlink url so that Avast ignores it and allows it to link? And if it does, do I need to do something additional so that it doesn't stop the actual emails from being transferred ?

Thanks SO MUCH in advance.

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Re: trying to link yahoo mail accounts is stopped by Avast
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2018, 10:18:27 PM »
Have you tried settings > webshield > exclusions?

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Re: trying to link yahoo mail accounts is stopped by Avast
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2018, 10:26:37 PM »
Yes, unfortunately that does nothing. Get the exact same message. And it sounds so proud of itself that it has blocked this "problem" for me!

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Re: trying to link yahoo mail accounts is stopped by Avast
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2018, 04:28:17 AM »
You can report a suspected FP (File/Website) here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php
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