I use, Auslogics Registry Cleaner version 1.5.12.165, since i have had it, it doesnt seem to have had any updates when i was in the program today i thought i would check. so i clicked “Check for updates…” and it redirected me to a website say my version was up to date.
However, avast let me know a threat had been detected. a red box appeared saying:
"MALISIOUC URL BLOCKED
avast! Network Shield has blocked a threat.
No further action is required.
The threat was detected and blocked just before connecting to the URL"
Is this a false positive? within the auslogics registry cleaner program there are links to the company’s site as well, which i thought i would click on and again they recieved the same or similar message. In addition to avast i use the full version of malwarebytes, and this program didnt attempt to block the ip address, although i am not sure if that is the same as the threat detected with avast? Again i practise safe internet surfing and find it hard to believe a company life this would send me to malicious websites… any help would be greatly apprieciated
Given that the location being blocked is Object: google-stats.com/start.php not the Auslogic site, either something has hacked the site or more likely there something on another site you were visiting.
Update, I didn’t have this registry cleaner, but since it isn’t very big I downloaded and installed it and I did an update check and no alert by the avast network shield. See image, I checked the page source code of the page that the registry cleaner goes to and there is no reference to google-stats.com
I don’t use Auslogics registry cleaner, but use their Disk Defragmenter and Registry Defragmenter. I checked for updates and both lead to a Internal Server Error.
Also when I tried to go their homepage it leads me to somewhere else… I think their website is down/hacked…
i am using diskdefrag by auslogics. I yesterday tried to visit the home page and got the same warning by avast.
I wrote them at 8 PM german time this morning:
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Hi,
i use Disk Defrag which is very good!
But yesterday when i visited your homepage, my AV Engine (AVAST 5.0) declared your website
malicious, because it starts a link to google-stats.com/start.php. This isn’t a google site!
The site then of course is blocked.
Any idea what’s going on?
Best regards
Holger
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They answered promptly and asked for the exact message by avast. I sent them the message which is alike to the OP.
The only difference is the browser. Mine is IE8.
This evening the auslogics site is down. Seems they are checking…