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Offline GREG.W

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GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« on: June 13, 2020, 02:39:36 PM »
Hi.
How to un phishing the main GOV.UK site ???

Avast Online Security is just blocked ALL official website of GOV.UK .....

how to un-do it, as exclusion in settings does nothing to allow to access the GOV.UK services??

//from covid info, to maIn login web
https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/bas-gateway/sign-in?continue_url=/personal-account&origin=PTA-frontend
https://www.access.service.gov.uk/login/signin/creds

threat is applied to all www.access.service.gov.uk

edit:
https://www.universal-credit.service.gov.uk/sign-in

blocked as well as dangerous website.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2020, 04:42:14 PM by GREG.W »

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2020, 05:55:58 PM »
Blocked here as well

The form to report a false positive is at https://www.avast.com/en-gb/false-positive-file-form.php

I have reported the universal credit and access.services URLs

Interesting (and annoying if you need them) that parts of the gov.uk site are thought to be phishing. And they say satire is dead!

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2020, 06:11:16 PM »
I'm struggling to unblock access to the site.

I'm not sure what my start point should be.

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2020, 06:12:30 PM »
I've escalated this to the Avast team.
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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2020, 06:28:02 PM »
Hello,

detection was disabled and fix was released via stream 20061308-89 and 20061308-87. Fix will be included also in new VPS update.

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2020, 07:48:27 PM »
Working now thanks.

For those effected, ensure that you have the latest streaming updates/virus definitions.
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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2020, 08:11:27 PM »
Can not access Universal Credit sign in page on GOV.UK, Using Avast (free version with latest definition and program updates), Firefox (latest version), this is the error I get: "An error occurred during a connection to www.universal-credit.service.gov.uk. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR". Links on GOV.UK work up to when i click "Sign In"

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2020, 09:05:42 PM »
Can not access Universal Credit sign in page on GOV.UK, Using Avast (free version with latest definition and program updates), Firefox (latest version), this is the error I get: "An error occurred during a connection to universal-credit.service.gov.uk. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR". Links on GOV.UK work up to when i click "Sign In"

Confirmed, please modify your link so it isn't active e.g. as I modified your quoted link universal-credit.service.gov.uk.

This can be reported here - https://www.avast.com/en-gb/false-positive-file-form.php

EDIT: I have just reported it.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2020, 09:10:18 PM by DavidR »
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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2020, 02:48:14 AM »
The site is still being treated as 'unsafe' and 'phishing'.

I've tried turning off my Avast shields, and adding the site to my Exceptions list, but Avast still continues to block the site.

Please fix it.

Thanks

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2020, 08:50:27 AM »
Hello,

detection was disabled and fix was released via stream 20061308-89 and 20061308-87. Fix will be included also in new VPS update.

Thanks

Still blocked and these stream updates are showing on my system

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2020, 01:21:46 PM »
Unable to access this link to Tax Account

https://www.access.service.gov.uk/

As showing as a Phishing site still with all definitions and engines updated on Avast Premium

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2020, 01:46:08 PM »
Hi guys, it should be finally fixed now (via stream update).
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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2020, 02:33:38 PM »
As far as I can see, the access.service part of the site can now be accessed but the universal credit link is still blocked as a phishing site

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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2020, 03:32:18 PM »
As far as I can see, the access.service part of the site can now be accessed but the universal credit link is still blocked as a phishing site
Thanks, confirmed and forwarded. It should be fixed soon.
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Re: GOV.UK - This website has been marked as a phishing site.
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2020, 03:57:11 PM »
Unable to access this link to Tax Account
access.service.gov.uk/
As showing as a Phishing site still with all definitions and engines updated on Avast Premium

No Alert, but a site error page not found.
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