Avast! is not allowing me into YouTube!

[MarshallO]

I have no idea if I am in the right board.  You have one of the most confusing forums I have ever been in.  I have tried for a half-hour to start a new post!

In any event, I can't get into YouTube, because Avast! is reporting it as a "malicious website"!

Please send me to the right board, if this is the wrong one, and tell me how the heck I'm supposed to start a new Topic!

I'd appreciate any help with the YouTube problem.

Thank you!

[Jtaylor83]

I can't seem access my mine either.

Here's my network shield log.

25.12.2008  16:15:31  Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site hxxp://www.youtube.com/account [ C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe ]
25.12.2008  16:16:22  Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site hxxp://www.youtube.com/account [ C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe ]

[MarshallO]

That's me, too!  I hope that someone can fix this!

[Dragonbird]

yeah I can't access www.dragcave.net/account because it is supposedly "malicious"

Avast! needs to fix this soon ._.

[MarshallO]

Well, they'd better, or it's goodbye Avast! and hello AVG!

[bob3160]

Maybe this will help:

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[Lisandro]

Maybe two false positives, try the Exclusion list as Bob said.

[uforeportinfo]

I wanted to add my voice. I can get into almost any YouTube page except my own account, there Avast blocks it as "malicious". I'm sure I can either disable the Network scanner or use the exclusion suggestion, but that only patches the problem on my end. Avast needs to do something about this bug.

[Lisandro]

Avast needs to do something about this bug.

They will. It's a false positive, not precisely a bug.
Welcome to forums and sorry for the inconvenience.

[MarshallO]

@Bob3160:  That's a good idea, but sort of like a "duct tape" approach to the problem.  I shouldn't have to use a "workaround" of any kind!  This is an Avast! problem that need to be addressed and fixed ASAP.  I'm sure that more than just a few websites are involved.

Naturally, all this has to occur on Christmas, of course. . . .

[Dragonbird]

Nevermind, still not working.

[MarshallO]

These Forums are all well and good, but how do we know that the Avast! team is looking at them?  If they don't know about something, how can they fix it?

From what I can tell, there appears to be a report problems Email link that goes directly to the Avast! team, but it seems a bit too complicated for a semi-computer literate person like me. 

It would be nice if a "moderator" for this particular forum were present, then we might get some action!

[roro]

I just tried and have no problem accessing youtube using Avast and Firefox.  I never had to put it in any list and my virus protection is up to date.
Why would it cause a problem to just a few?
RoRo

[Dragonbird]

I can get to youtube, I just can't get to my account, or my accounts on any other site I'm on for that matter...

[bob3160]

These Forums are all well and good, but how do we know that the Avast! team is looking at them?  If they don't know about something, how can they fix it?

From what I can tell, there appears to be a report problems Email link that goes directly to the Avast! team, but it seems a bit too complicated for a semi-computer literate person like me. 

It would be nice if a "moderator" for this particular forum were present, then we might get some action!

Remember that it's Christmas today.
If it's a false positive, they'll make the correction.
If it isn't, then you have a problem and you'll need to solve it.