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Offline gabrielecornalba

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avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« on: October 09, 2020, 08:01:54 PM »
Yesterday I opened a PDF file with Microsoft edge (the file is confirmed safe it's a scan that I made myself) and since then avast went bonkers, it keeps reporting phishing threats blocked, from all the browsers, (never used edge for browsing but it nags me that when I open it goes mad), Svchost2, and sometimes firefox, but a lot less, and all the times the weird blocked site is different.
I ran a complete scan, with malwarebytes too, cleaned the cache of all the browsers, run a cleaning with ccleaner, I don't know what else I need to do.

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Re: avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2020, 01:08:34 PM »
Ok it gone weirder, now avast thinks himself (AVASTUI) as a phishing scam

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Re: avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2020, 06:13:07 PM »
What error messages are you seeing from Avast?
A screenshot would help illustrate your problem.

First thing to do if Avast has gone bonkers as you say, is to try and repair Avast.
Open the User Interface
Menu>Settings>Troubleshooting>[REPAIR APP]

Also you may be suffereing if you have Malwarebytes running its real-time protection alongside Avast. I would suggest you uninstall Malwarebytes or make exceptions for it in Avast.
See here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=211973.0
« Last Edit: October 10, 2020, 06:20:20 PM by rocksteady »

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Re: avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2021, 03:21:52 PM »
Back to Threat secured. Just started today and get the same message about every 30 seconds. Bloody annoying. Have a screenshot but don't know how to send it to anyone. Its always the same site which I've been using for a number of years https://www.giveasyoulive.com. How can I stop it keep appearing.

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Re: avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2021, 03:47:25 PM »
Back to Threat secured. Just started today and get the same message about every 30 seconds. Bloody annoying. Have a screenshot but don't know how to send it to anyone. Its always the same site which I've been using for a number of years https://www.giveasyoulive.com. How can I stop it keep appearing.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f6a80fc3153dd17b7f95716c3833ba8ea0dbc4eaac25b9f7523b943cf5624a13/detection


If you think it is wrong, report it to avast lab >> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=14433.msg1289438#msg1289438



« Last Edit: September 03, 2021, 04:06:22 PM by Pondus »

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Re: avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2021, 01:58:24 PM »
Am having the same problem since yesterday. Message pops up every 10 seconds. I have the free version. How do I eliminate please?

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Re: avast keeps popping up phishing threat secured
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2021, 04:00:58 PM »
Am having the same problem since yesterday. Message pops up every 10 seconds. I have the free version. How do I eliminate please?
Start a new thread and provide details/screenshot.
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
Avast Wissenswertes (Downloads, Anleitungen & Infos): https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=60523.0