I’ve been getting this popup a lot lately. Whenever I return to my computer from being away for an extended period of time I get this pop up no matter what site i try to visit.
Is this legitimate? Is this a feature that is built into avast? I cannot find an option for it anywhere.
Yes, SiteCorrect is a function within the WebRep - AvastUI, Additional Protection, Browser Protection, Settings SiteCorrect.
Though I have never actually seen the popup notification, it is looking for sites that you may have accidentally typed incorrectly (so it will ask). The reason for this is there are a lot of sites out there which use typo squatting to drive traffic to their site should you make a typo on a well-known name. In some cases these typo squatting sites could well be malicious.
Whilst reddit.com is correct it could well be a typo for say readit.com.
I was trying to test SiteCorrect and accidentally I’ve come to this ;D
See the suspicious script found here: http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/7f778851b3944a850fa43a7a1b545144-1354372463
Potentially Suspicious files according to Quttera: 2
/index.html
File size[byte]:
94602
Threat type:
Potentially Suspicious
Details:
Our investigation system run out of memory used for execution process.
Reason:
Reached execution stack limit. Stack content: [ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ][ l ]
MD5:
9E2C783F014A1548F92322D6EBB15E3B
Scan duration[sec]:
1.646000
plus.google.com/?gpsrc=ogpy0&tab=wX
File size[byte]:
73614
Threat type:
Potentially Suspicious
Details:
Detected hidden reference to external web resource.
Reason:
Detected generation of hidden DOM element [iframe].
MD5:
1CAAD74A7915C1BF8313961FDCF4E74E
Scan duration[sec]:
0.24100
Data fron Quttera scan for that particular site…
polonus
Ok, Thank you for the advice. I thought it was part of avast and after googling for as much information as I could I saw that it was. What concerned me was the pop-up for whatever site I went too. Even going to google.com set it off. That is what concerned me.
Thank You again for your help.
You’re welcome.
For me using firefox it has never appeared, but then again it don’t make many mistakes and most of the urls I visit are from links.