Avast claims google is a phishing site with pop-up warning?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I recently opened Google Chrome, the primary web-browser I use on a daily basis, and it automatically loads Google’s home page by default.

Avast gave a pop-up which said something along the lines of, “This site is known for phishing.” That was not the exact message, but it was similar. I do not have a screenshot of the pop-up, but I was able to attach a screenshot of the Avast Online Security extension which claims that Google has a bad reputation.

I have never had this issue before, and I have noticed at least one other post with more than one person reporting a similar problem.

The attached image is not the original pop-up, but is instead the window for the Avast Online Security extension.

Any advice, anyone?

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use Viruses and Worms forum section for reporting False Positives … and already reported there https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=178821.0

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I find it quite incredible that avast tout google so much and yet somehow mistake their page for a phishing site.

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I visited Google.com using firefox 42.0 and no alert.

I don’t use the the AOS browser security add-on, but that shouldn’t change the other alert images I have seen reported.

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I had this occur using Firefox browser (set to Google.com as homepage) but NOT when opening google.com with IE10. Seriously? What’s up with this?

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It would appear that this issue is only involving Firefox, see other related topic HERE

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hi,
had this happen today with mozilla firefox also. i just accepted it and it went away. dont know if it was the correct thing to do but we will find out>
thanks
rb622b

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It would appear that this issue is only involving Firefox, see other related topic HERE
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Unfortunately, it is not exclusive to Firefox - I am using Google as my browser & their home page as my opening screen as well, and have received this same message multiple times over the past few hours. I don’t even have Firefox installed on this dinosaur anymore (running Windows XP). However, my laptop is new & have not received the phishing warning at all on that one…

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It has been fixed already, see: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=178821.msg1265818#msg1265818

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Well, not for me:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84843025/Image%20Cache/Screenshot%202016-02-28%2021.18.02.png

Seriously guys, this just makes you look like fools :wink: