Threat resolved notice in many website visits

[rpmongard]

Nearly every time I enter websites I am getting a "Threat resolved" notice from Avast.

This has been going on for the last 2 days. I am visiting many websites these days as part of a research, and this pops up again and again on many websites. I might have a window of websites where it doesn't happen, but then again I have a surge of notices website after website.

The Threat notice says: landingpages.kaizengaming.com ....... URL: Scam

I have done a Virus full scan of my PC and it finds nothing (I haven't done a boot-time scan).

After reading that I should update Avast, I noticed that I hadn't seen an update.  I updated and restarted my PC but the notices are still popping up.  Right now I'm doing a second full scan of my PC after updating but it's taking quite long.

Can someone tell me what's going on? Are these false positives? Are these websites infected or is it my PC? Is there something I can do? Or should I just ignore these notices?

Thanks for any advice.

[mchain]

What browser do you use when you get notified?

[rpmongard]

Chrome

[mchain]

https://quttera.com/detailed_report/landingpages.kaizengaming.com
https://zulu.zscaler.com/report/45665ce2-47a0-4459-a5db-bbe19e57ab2e
https://urlquery.net/report/c16f541b-6a68-406e-8e6b-ebc0fb5dfd52
https://app.checkphish.ai/public/insights/1711514546149/07139077cb860ddb8323c379c632c1eeff8cf8b2e4f43e4b72ae87056562250f
https://www.ipqualityscore.com/threat-feeds/malicious-url-scanner/http%3A%2F%2Flandingpages.kaizengaming.com
Appears to be clean.

Suggest you clean your history and data in Google Chrome and restart (close and reopen Chrome) when done.  See attached below. 

Use Ctrl + Shift + Delete to open your history page.

Is your issue fixed?  Suggest installing an adblocker if you do not have one:  https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

[rpmongard]

I deleted all browsing data.   I had a few hours of freeway but now it's back again with the same landingpage... and others.

[mchain]

Please attach a screenshot of your warning alert so we can see what you see in your next reply.

[rpmongard]

How do I attach an image?  Where can I place it?

[DavidR]

- Attaching Images to your post - When you Click the Reply button it opens a text window for you to post your comment (reply or post).
Click the Preview button, that shows what you have input and expands it to include 'Attachments and other options'. Click that it further expands, here you can attach images, etc. at the bottom of your post.
See my attached image, click to expand.

[rpmongard]

Two images Thanks DavidR

[DavidR]

1.  Is it always the same site that is in the Avast alert  ?
2.  Were you intending to visit this site  ?

If 1 is Yes and 2 is No
- Then the likelihood is there is something in your browser cache (you say you have cleared that) or a new or recently updated or recently added browser Add-on.

Have you tried browsing with add-ons disabled ?
If that resolves it the problem would be finding which add-on.

Does this happen if you use a different browser  ?

[rpmongard]

1-2 I am using Google advanced search tool to find a variety of information.  Probably I visit about 100 websites from the search results each day.
Not all links to a website trigger a Threat Notice.  Sometimes it's 3 to 5 websites in a row, sometimes I can go an hour or so with no notice, and then have 3 or more in a row again.  Yesterday I had much less of this than what I had the two days before, and it seems as i it were dying down.  We'll see today, just starting off with my daily research.
The only Add on I have in the Browser is Avast Anti Track Premium on Chrome. I rarely use Edge.
If this keeps on happening today I'll switch to Edge to see if it happens there, but it seems AntiTrack is the problem picking up false positives for some unknown reason.
In fact, I have found all Avast services, AntiTrack, Clean up and Updates are very intrusive, interupting one's activity and slowing down things.  I'd like to know if other antivirus programs have the same problems.

[rpmongard]

For your knowledge:

1) I disabled the Chrome extension "Avast Antitrack Premium" in the browser: Didn't solve the issue.

2) I removed the Chrome extension "Avast Antitrack Premium" from Chrome: Didn't solve the issue.

3) Disabled "Avast Antitrack Premium" completely in my PC: Seems to have solved the problem.

  As "Avast Antitrack Premium" comes as part of the Avast Premium Security subscription, will it get fixed by uninstalling-installing Avast again?  Would I have to ask for a new subscription key?  Or will Avast read this post and fix the thing?

[DavidR]

As "Avast Antitrack Premium" comes as part of the Avast Premium Security subscription, will it get fixed by uninstalling-installing Avast again?  Would I have to ask for a new subscription key?  Or will Avast read this post and fix the thing?

Unfortunately as an Avast User I can't answer that, but I will try to bump it.

[rpmongard]

Now I got another notice for "landingpage..." despite I have "Avast Antitrack Premium" completely disabled. The date/hour stamp between this and my previous post should show how long my fix lasted.

This is very strange.

This morning before my last post I made a Boot-time scan, the day before I made a full scan.  And in both cases there is no virus.

My next step shall be to work on another computer that also has this same Avast subscription to see what is happening there.  In another forum someone said he had something similar going on.

[DavidR]

I have tried to raise this issue - but as an Avast User I'm limited in what I can do.

Given that these are alerts when browsing (on access), I would have been very surprised if anything 'related' has been found in on-demand scans.