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Offline ajroudi.mohammed

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Why my website is flagged as a phishing website ?
« on: May 19, 2021, 12:37:42 AM »
Dear Avast Team,

My website is flagged as phishing website, but I don't do phishing, nor never did. so I did a full scan of the website using wordfense and didn't find any problems and all my plugins are updated and my wordpress is also updated, So can you tell me why did you flag my website as a phishing website so I can fix the issue if there is any ?

https://linkedinbiogenerator.com

Thanks in advance.


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Re: Why my website is flagged as a phishing website ?
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2021, 01:00:27 AM »
Thanks for your answer !

So avast is basing their verdict on Virus Total ? So if I Fix those, I won't be flagged anymore ?

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Offline ajroudi.mohammed

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Re: Why my website is flagged as a phishing website ?
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2021, 01:27:56 AM »
Hello again,

I did some digging and found that the line of code that sucuri flagged as suspicious is an inline polyfill script injected by wordpress, and found it also on their official github repository, so It's not a virus, Is their anymore reasons why would my website is flagged ? I really to fix this and get this done.

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Re: Why my website is flagged as a phishing website ?
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2021, 01:33:08 AM »
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So avast is basing their verdict on Virus Total
I did not say that, just giving info found online

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So if I Fix those, I won't be flagged anymore ?
report to avast lab if you think it is wrong

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



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Re: Why my website is flagged as a phishing website ?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2021, 10:27:03 AM »
Thanks a lot for your answers :) and Yes I'll fill that form.

Thanks again.

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Re: Why my website is flagged as a phishing website ?
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2021, 12:05:48 PM »
You were right where that phishing alert stemmed from, polyfill.io indeed.

Re: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/polyfill.io/community 
(phisbox alerted it and mentiones as a suspicious domain).

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