@DavidR:
I
had to visit that website at a customers disposition to trace down some possible sources of problems he had. And as I use AVAST as protection, I ran into the described problem of just getting blocked that website without usable information why it is blocked - not more and not less.
But your answer seem to be a confirmation that the site is blocked only "for political reasons" - and that seems to be even confirmed as the detailed information about the blocking reason is not given. That's also what I complain about: just only "URL:Mal" is not enough information to see what's the problem with the site! And to find out, you have to disable part of your protection.
It blocks it because it considers the site malicious
The problem here is still: you do not get ANY information why AVAST considers this site as being malicious! And the way you are answering implies that you'd like to deny the right of the user to know what the reason for blocking is. Considering it as justifide just by knowing that it is a "crack-serial"-website is another question ...
and cracks aside from any moral or legal implications
... that's another battlefield ... but considering crack-websites per se as "virus/malware-infected" is just a lie to the user (I don't use only "malicious" here!) - and the consequence can be that the user is disabling protection and opens the doors for much worse problems. That's also why it is necessary to have appropriate information.
they are very high risk as they frequently come with uninvited guests.
... that's known - but a valuable protection is intercepting that - as long as it was not disabled because of the reasons mentioned above.
@polonus:
My complaint is not the fact that the mentioned site is blocked by network shield, but that you do not get enough information why it was blocked - without disabling part of the protection! If you want to know some minor details, you have to disable protection. That's what I am complaing about!
btw: urlQuery reports: - No alerts detected
Sorry, but that a crack-serial-site has a poor reputation by it's own (just by the stuff itself that is put there), and that (some of the) cracks found there additionally are infected with ghastly and excruciating malware is also well known. So that's not the real topic here. Topic here is the behaviour of AVAST in such cases - and the lack of information you get by AVAST about the flaw - without disabling part of the protection!