avast blocks access to steam store account

Viruses and worms
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In Steam when making a purchase you can click on “your account”. Avast then blocks access to http://store.steampowered.com/account saying it’s malicious.
Is this a problem with the Network Shield in Avast or has the Steam site been infected?

I’m using Avast 4.8.1296 with VPS 081225-0.

thanks for any info

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Yeah, seems another false positive of Network Shield…
I think is something silly related to the word “account” or something like that.
Tons of users are experiencing trouble. Hope they release 081225-1 soon…

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It indeed seems to be a false positive related to urls ending in “/account/”

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ok thanks, i’ll wait for the next VPS update

5

this bug stopped me from reactivating world of warcraft right when my resolve had weakened

<3 avast