How can I shut off Avast’s “This is probably not the site you were trying to enter.
Did you mean …”
I’m OK with the protection part of Avast in my web browser, but I really need to get server/browser messages in the raw format.
How can I shut off this new feature?
v7.0.1474
Hello and welcome to the forum!
Open avast GUI → Additional Protection → Browser Protection → Settings → SiteCorrect → uncheck “Enable SiteCorrect”
DJBone
What exactly is the problem?
The list is carefully verified… are you saying some corrections are not correct?
Thanks DJBone, just what I needed.
igor: the list may be fine… but I do technical work and I’d much rather see an actual error message displayed than have some software filtering the errors for me. Not to mention, I’m not a fan of “dumbing down” software.
You’re welcome!
DJBone
But there is no error message.
OK, it might be in some cases (you may get unresolved DNS for some sites) - but the main purpose of the SiteCorrect is to prevent you from visiting fake sites that try to take advantage of the user making a typo while typing the URL. So if you disable SiteCorrect, you won’t get any error message - you just land on a different web page than you (most likely) wanted, possibly without noticing.
@ Igor
I rather think that the OP is talking of any browser or server error message (if they would ever get one) than an error message from avast SiteCorrect.
Personally I doubt there would be any errors from the browser for a typo on the domain name address, usually it would be the DNS error, etc. if no domain of that name. But the typo squatters sites would sail right through without a browser or DNS error and SiteCorrect disabled.
OK… I’ve shut off site correct, per the instructions above.
It’s still site correcting (Yes, I’ve restarted my browser, multiple times). It’s not shutting off.
Some DNS providers also do this on their own…
Can you post a screenshot of the sitecorrect window you get in your browser?