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Offline Asyn

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Re: false positive marvel wiki site
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2019, 06:57:49 PM »
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Re: false positive marvel wiki site
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2019, 07:45:30 PM »
I am having problems as well with the Marvel Fandom (Wiki).  The first time I accessed the site today the site was blocked by AVAST due to URL:Phishing and just recently it was blocked due to HTML:RedirME-inf [Trj]

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Re: false positive marvel wiki site
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2019, 02:58:19 AM »
I'm seeing false positives on any of the fandom wiki sites I've tried visiting, my last successful visit was at 6:58pm eastern time.
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Re: false positive marvel wiki site
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2019, 01:46:45 PM »
I too have been hit with this and many other false positives. I have found that the webshield aspect of Avast and other anti-virus program are almost always false positives. Now that might be because I haven't tried to access the truly fishy websites and therefore it just seems that 99% of sites blocked are false positives.

I added the marvel fandom wiki site as an exemption. When I did that it allowed me to open the page but then avast displays a "warning" that the site "may have damaged this computer". I am given one option to "take me out of here". It does not allow a closing of the warning, a "allow access anyway" or anything else.

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Re: false positive marvel wiki site
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2019, 10:44:12 AM »
Hello,
the URL was unblocked.

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Re: false positive marvel wiki site
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2019, 05:12:35 PM »
I too have been hit with this and many other false positives. I have found that the webshield aspect of Avast and other anti-virus program are almost always false positives. Now that might be because I haven't tried to access the truly fishy websites and therefore it just seems that 99% of sites blocked are false positives.

I added the marvel fandom wiki site as an exemption. When I did that it allowed me to open the page but then avast displays a "warning" that the site "may have damaged this computer". I am given one option to "take me out of here". It does not allow a closing of the warning, a "allow access anyway" or anything else.
The block window is from Avast Online Security.
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