avast is blocking my website: url:mal

system · 2016-12-02T03:29:21.000Z

Hi, all.

I’m the one running the website https://kalamazooacs.org. According one of our users, Avast blocks our website. I tried some of the “site checking” websites linked on similar posts on this forum and none of them return anything useful:
http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/2bde56ae5361b4a945db3fd7771cba8c-1480648097
https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/15bfca75b08d7760be93739806311b6c7c6724b40b3082317132f335b7322a02/analysis/1480649248/

According to our user, he reported this as a false positive. Is there anything I could be doing to fix this?

Thanks.

Eddy · 2016-12-02T04:41:06.000Z

SSL insecurities :
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=kalamazooacs.org

Vulnerable library :
http://retire.insecurity.today/#!/scan/ec8579664741f2a38b2b81c5fb1d9d756684205067fcea8c0535945159ae315b

Some minor things on that ASN :
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1480652606279

Two trackers that more and more people don’t want (Google analytics, Facebook)

The real problem is that you are using Afraid.org as dns server.
You need to step away from them or use their paid service.
https://forum.avast.com/?topic=148018.msg1075293#msg1075293

system · 2016-12-02T06:03:22.000Z

Hi, Eddy.

Thanks for the help. The DNS thing makes a lot of sense. I’ll work on the minor problems when I have a chance.

Cheers,
Mark

Eddy · 2016-12-02T06:10:36.000Z

Something more to have a look at/fix > https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fkalamazooacs.org%2F

polonus · 2016-12-02T14:53:53.000Z

But I think the afraid dot org hosting might have been at the culprit of avast flagging the site.
Wait for an Avast Team Member to confirm this and eventually unblock.

polonus

system · 2016-12-04T07:10:28.000Z

Thanks for the feedback. So far I managed to get my ssllabs rating up to an A.

I’m trying to find a better DNS solution. Unfortunately my registrar (bluehost) doesn’t offer DNS unless we have a hosting account. I’ll keep looking.

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