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Offline The British Historian

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False positive or genuine virus?
« on: November 20, 2019, 08:11:00 PM »
Hey, for about 2 days now, I have been getting notifications from avast anti-track premium that potential tracking attempts have been blocked, obviously scared about this, I click on it and run a virus scan, get rid of all viruses, but I still get the notifications, and when I look closer on it, it tells me the tracking attempts were on websites that are obviously not malicious, such as youtube and reddit, how do I solve this?

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Re: False positive or genuine virus?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2019, 08:53:35 PM »
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how do I solve this?
Stay away from those websites      ;)

However your avast antitrack is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, tracking does not have to be malicious and it is not a virus

https://blog.avast.com/whos-tracking-you-avast

https://support.avast.com/en-ww/article/AntiTrack-FAQ





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Offline The British Historian

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Re: False positive or genuine virus?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2019, 09:03:09 PM »
Oh, I was thinking that it was looking for cookies or something like that, would explain why it's on youtube and reddit, since they aren't malicious, is there anyway for me to check if it's malicious or not?
« Last Edit: November 20, 2019, 09:08:13 PM by The British Historian »