Avast blocks malware and in process it says Adfender which is my adblocking

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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program. Why does it say that in there? Its safe. Or is it saying its from an ad that adfender blocked?

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can you attach a screenshot of the avast warning?

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Sure I will tonight.

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Sorry took me a bit longer.

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well…possible that avast and adfender is scanning that website at the same time and that is why avast see adfender as the process ?

anyway, that URL and exe file is bad

urlQuery
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=194168

Jotti
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/60d1ce5793ba04ef6e83e770a6c56b1424dc2cb4

Virustotal
https://www.virustotal.com/file/0314ca9803ab1a16c3be796446f4f1602d221eb73ede4accce8464fc0678a7f2/analysis/

are you trying to access this website or is this popping up at randome ?

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I am testing malware using sandboxie and I noticed that adfender has been a process for quite a few sites Avast blocked/files quarantine.

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bump

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Adfender and a lot of other filtering programs are local content-filtering HTTP proxy servers, so all your traffic in your browser goes through adfender. That’s why it shows adfender in the malware warning instead of your browser. Turn off adfender, and go to the same sites, and the malware warning should say your browser instead of adfender.

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Thanks