At the risk of beating a dead horse:
I posted the screen shot that showed that Avast blocked the execution of an element on the website, apparently merely because some javascript on the site didn’t meet Avast’s expectations for “security” or “newness” or something. If blocking this element results in people being unable to use portions of the website that they need, then that is the same thing as blocking “the website” for those people.
And as I said in my original post, I filed a ticket in OCTOBER 2016, and this issue has not been fixed, even though Avast subsequently sent me a satisfaction survey asking me how I liked the way they “fixed” it.
It may be appropriate to warn the DEVELOPERS or OWNERS of websites when their websites contain code that may not be maximally secure, but that function should be limited to website development tools. Displaying warnings, or blocking website functionality, or blocking websites, merely because the code is “old” is not helpful, or useful, or appropriate, for ordinary end-users of these websites.
If Avast is going to insist on doing this anyway, then it should least give me a switch to turn it off in the SOA. I do not want to turn off the entire web shield, I only want to turn off the portion of the web shield that issues warnings and blocks for theoretical, not actual, threats.
