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Offline Trey W.

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So I've just started up my computer and I launch my Avast browser. I head over to YouTube, which is quite a trustworthy website and try to watch some videos, however, I get a notification saying, "Warning! This site contains phishing content." When I do click proceed anyways, I can't scroll or click on the videos. If you know what the issue is, some assistance would be appreciated. Here's a photo I have of it for reference: https://gyazo.com/93100fbe847e99a5e4eb415d2448a581 (paste it into your browser). Thanks for the help!

Offline Venge33

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Re: Avast is blocking my YouTube... why is that and how do I fix it?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2019, 06:19:20 PM »
Ditto, same happening to me too, but using Firefox, so it seems the extension has a bug or something. Pls fix.

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Re: Avast is blocking my YouTube... why is that and how do I fix it?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2019, 06:32:52 PM »
So I've just started up my computer and I launch my Avast browser. I head over to YouTube, which is quite a trustworthy website and try to watch some videos, however, I get a notification saying, "Warning! This site contains phishing content." When I do click proceed anyways, I can't scroll or click on the videos. If you know what the issue is, some assistance would be appreciated. Here's a photo I have of it for reference: https://gyazo.com/93100fbe847e99a5e4eb415d2448a581 (paste it into your browser). Thanks for the help!
Block window does not appear to be AOS or AdBlock, otherwise no issue here viewing youtube from here. 

Is it just the xqc site?
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Offline Venge33

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Re: Avast is blocking my YouTube... why is that and how do I fix it?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2019, 07:38:52 PM »
In my case it is AOS, here's an imgur screen, however the text is in my language HUngarian, so dunno if you can understand or not:
https://imgur.com/5sNFa2q

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Re: Avast is blocking my YouTube... why is that and how do I fix it?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2019, 07:32:14 AM »
You can report a suspected FP (File/Website) here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php
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Re: Avast is blocking my YouTube... why is that and how do I fix it?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2019, 01:31:40 PM »
Hmm somehow it fixed itself by today, dunno why, but YouTube is no longer blocked by AOS.

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Re: Avast is blocking my YouTube... why is that and how do I fix it?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2019, 01:36:02 PM »
OK, thanks for the feedback.
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
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