Google chrome.exe triggering alert

Viruses and worms
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l today triggers an alarm on first instance of search using google chrome, but not on edge search: I am defaultly blocking TP cookies, but it has never done it before

Alert Details:

avast
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We’ve safely aborted connection on peterfire. net because it was infected with
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https:// peterfire. net/22a3c76046f79ddObe .js
Files
Web Shield
Connection aborted

Not sure why or how or whether it is a google or avast issue

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peterfire.net/22a3c76046f79ddObe.js - is blacklisted

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/b48be9d0aae8b142570981de8bb264c72c1d71c962e26f614d875276cf14fadf/detection

https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/peterfire.net/

also peterfire.net is down >> https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/peterfire.net

Try clear your browser surf history

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@ bj16
First you should break the link to the suspect file to avoid accidental exposure to a suspect location/file.
e.g. no https info peterfire.net/22a3c76046f79ddObe.js
See https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/b48be9d0aae8b142570981de8bb264c72c1d71c962e26f614d875276cf14fadf/detection on this file location.

Crome.exe isn’t triggering the alert that is the browser process (if using Chrome, don’t shoot the messenger), you did a search and one of the results triggered the alert by Avast.

Since Avast is blocking that location, you shouldn’t need to block it in Chrome, but belt and braces never hurt.

Again block active links to suspect sites.

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@ bj16
How many times do we have to ask to stop posting active links to suspect sites ?
You put others at risk of accidental exposure, not to mention active links are promoted by these links when spiders crawl sites, such as these forums.

You can use the Modify button in each of your posts and break the links as suggested.