For over 5 years I have received emails from
www.gofobo.com with info about new movies and movie trailers.
Some emails offer a free raffle to receive a minor swag item and have a "RAFFLE" CELL BOX to click that opens your browser (Safari) and takes you from the email to a Raffle Entry page. Every month they have about 4-5 raffles. I have entered many of these raffles over the last 5 years without any problem and without receiving an AVAST warning alert.
However over the last 1-2 months, whenever I click on the "Go to Raffle" button, AVAST immediately blocks the raffle entry page from showing and issues two separate Avast Warning Dialog Boxes saying:
FIRST DIALOG BOX:
Whew! We’ve just saved you from an infected website
Infected URL:
https://gofobo.ticktbox.com/redirect/kvUMqFThreat: URL:Blacklist
This URL contains malicious code that could harm your computer.
If you’re willing to risk it, you can turn off your Avast Web Shield to continue.
But we strongly recommend walking away from this one.
SECOND DIALOG BOX (with 2 pages):
Multiple web threats secured:
We’ve blocked a threat URL:Blacklist on
https://gofobo.ticktbox.com/redirect/kvUMqF from being downloaded.
Threat name: URL:Blacklist
Severity: 2 0f 3
Website:
https://gofobo.ticktbox.com/redirect/kvUMqFProscess: /System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/App/System/Applications/Sa
Detected by: Web Shield
Status: Threat blocked
We’ve blocked a threat URL:Blacklist on
https://gofobo.ticktbox.com/favicon.ico from being downloaded.
Threat name: URL:Blacklist
Severity: 2 0f 3
Website:
https://gofobo.ticktbox.com/favicon.icoProscess: /System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/App/System/Applications/Sa
Detected by: Web Shield
Status: Threat blocked
So now I can't enter any of the raffles.
I don't know the connection between gofobo.com and ticktbox.com. But both are in the business of advertising and promoting new films of the movie industry.
QUESTION:
Is it true that the gofobo and ticktbox sites are containing some viruses and trying to infect my system with malware?
Or is this a FP .... and I can turn off AVAST for this site?
If one of these sites is trying to infect my system with malware, then I'll just STOP my email subscription to the gofobo.com site.
Please let me know....and thanks for the info!
-- ts1234ts