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Offline schmidthouse

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'Resolved' Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« on: January 20, 2021, 07:27:09 PM »
I have just recently had unwanted notices (flash screen) popping up with a reference to Avast Secure Browser and wonder if anyone else is experiencing this "intrusion"!

Can't find any option to stop these flash screens from appearing. Never had this issue until just a few days ago. Started out of nowhere, there are different screens appearing, Not happy

Any input appreciated.
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They just keep coming
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Re: Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2021, 09:19:55 PM »
I checked in Settings/Notifications and added a Block to pointcaptchaspot.
Hopefully resolves the issue.

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Re: Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2021, 11:21:45 PM »
I checked in Settings/Notifications and added a Block to pointcaptchaspot.
Hopefully resolves the issue.

Have you read this https://www.computips.org/remove-pointcaptchaspot-com/ Pointcaptchaspot.com prompts users to allow its notifications.  Seems like you end up receiving 3rd party ad/spam
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Re: Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2021, 11:38:14 PM »
I checked in Settings/Notifications and added a Block to pointcaptchaspot.
Hopefully resolves the issue.

Have you read this https://www.computips.org/remove-pointcaptchaspot-com/ Pointcaptchaspot.com prompts users to allow its notifications.  Seems like you end up receiving 3rd party ad/spam

Thanks David.
I did research  pointcaptcha and have made the necessary settings change.
Must have sneakily infringed on my machine. Just out of the blue ???

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Re: Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2021, 11:51:38 PM »
I checked in Settings/Notifications and added a Block to pointcaptchaspot.
Hopefully resolves the issue.

Have you read this https://www.computips.org/remove-pointcaptchaspot-com/ Pointcaptchaspot.com prompts users to allow its notifications.  Seems like you end up receiving 3rd party ad/spam

Thanks David.
I did research  pointcaptcha and have made the necessary settings change.
Must have sneakily infringed on my machine. Just out of the blue ???

See this post by 'PaulW66', https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=247777.msg1580974#msg1580974 the suggestion and solution is to use the ASB uninstall utility to clear all remnants of ASB, a reinstating the 'Adblock' and 'Bank Mode' extensions.  Which presumably blocks these ads.
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Re: Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2021, 11:55:33 PM »
I checked in Settings/Notifications and added a Block to pointcaptchaspot.
Hopefully resolves the issue.

Have you read this https://www.computips.org/remove-pointcaptchaspot-com/ Pointcaptchaspot.com prompts users to allow its notifications.  Seems like you end up receiving 3rd party ad/spam

Thanks David.
I did research  pointcaptcha and have made the necessary settings change.
Must have sneakily infringed on my machine. Just out of the blue ???

See this post by 'PaulW66', https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=247777.msg1580974#msg1580974 the suggestion and solution is to use the ASB uninstall utility to clear all remnants of ASB, a reinstating the 'Adblock' and 'Bank Mode' extensions.  Which presumably blocks these ads.

Yes that post is one of the topics I've been following in my forum travelling. ;)

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Re: Unwanted Flash Screen notice
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2021, 12:06:03 AM »
I checked in Settings/Notifications and added a Block to pointcaptchaspot.
Hopefully resolves the issue.

Have you read this https://www.computips.org/remove-pointcaptchaspot-com/ Pointcaptchaspot.com prompts users to allow its notifications.  Seems like you end up receiving 3rd party ad/spam

Thanks David.
I did research  pointcaptcha and have made the necessary settings change.
Must have sneakily infringed on my machine. Just out of the blue ???

See this post by 'PaulW66', https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=247777.msg1580974#msg1580974 the suggestion and solution is to use the ASB uninstall utility to clear all remnants of ASB, a reinstating the 'Adblock' and 'Bank Mode' extensions.  Which presumably blocks these ads.

Yes that post is one of the topics I've been following in my forum travelling. ;)

You might also want to check out Polonus's topic here Google Chrome's Crackdown on adblocker extensions etc. unwelcome developments on Google Chrome and effectively culling Ad-Blockers, etc.
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