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Offline loungehake

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Web Shield blocked me from www.tenforums.com
« on: July 02, 2020, 05:11:03 PM »
As far as I know tenforums.com is reputable yet Web Shield 'protected' me from it.  I could not see any way of overriding Web Shield or reporting to Avast that a false positive was given.
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Re: Web Shield blocked me from www.tenforums.com
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2020, 05:25:55 PM »
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I could not see any way of overriding Web Shield or reporting to Avast that a false positive was given.
At top in viruses and worms section you find two sticky posts
One contain how to report info

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438

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Re: Web Shield blocked me from www.tenforums.com
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2020, 06:50:34 PM »
No issue here, so something appears to have been resolved.
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