I’m running Avast Free Antivirus. I regularly visit websites on a certain domain and today it was flagged for phishing. I then excepted the website in the Avast settings. Although it stopped blocking the website, I then got a popup message saying “This site could have harmed your computer.” There is no way to close this pop up and access the site. Then, I tried the same process with the shields off. I got the same popup message with no option to close it. Shouldn’t I be able to visit a “harmful” site if I want to? Why is Avast blocking my access when the shields are off…?
The site is openload.pw. It is a site where I upload and store files. Shouldn’t I be “allowed” to store files where I choose? Why is Avast continuing to block sites when I turn off the shields? It’s my system, if I’d like to take a calculated risk, shouldn’t that be my choice? Besides, this forum is riddled with evidence of false positives from Avast, so who’s to say it really is a phishing site?
In any event, as you can see from the screenshot below, it is clearly a message from Avast, after I added the site to the exceptions AND turned the shields off.
Well, what you show is Avast Online Security. AOS is not a part of the antivirus program. It works together with Avast but you can run it with any other antivirus; Avast is not required.