Anybody having same problem?
My regular browser is working fine but when I try to use safe zone, it directs to fake websites?!
My regular browser is working fine but when I try to use safe zone, it directs to fake websites?!what browser do you use?
Google Chrome
fake websitesWhat do you mean? The Safezone browser is based on Chromium like google. So it seem to look like it? But it will run without any additional components such as "plug-ins" which are often used to distribute spyware.
Reset your safe zone…
I think that works… 8)
I can’t run snip screen capture, because safezone does not allow any plug ins to run
When i initially open safezone it says that it can’t be reached, with the avast url in the web address.
Is it possible the virtual desktop as a virus? Looks like redirect virus but only when i use safezone.
it looks like google because they have the same platform as i said above
here is a physical pic
another pic upon opening safezone
I couldn’t be the first one to have safezone virtual virus?? Nobody else have the same symptoms
I’m going to bed, maybe somebody will have something by tomorrow, Thanks for any help in advance.
seriously, no idea how you’re getting that ??? … suspicious in every way
Are you sure your DNS and/or hosts file has not been hijacked?
For hosts you can check C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc - open the hosts file in notepad.
It should look something like this. If you have anything under the localhost lines, then it may have been modified by a virus.
Checking if your DNS has been hijacked is harder, but I’d highly recommend you run a full system scan using both avast and MalwareBytes.
After doing all of the above, open Avast, click Additional Protection then SafeZone and click the Reset SafeZone button.
Either logout of your Windows account, and log back in again - or restart your computer. Then open SafeZone and see if you still have the same problem.
If resetting the SafeZone still does not fix the issue, then I would highly recommend repairing avast (using the option on the program uninstaller) and resetting SafeZone again to see if that makes any difference.
yeah but if his DNS got hijacked, he’d be rerouted with his “normal browser” too… okay not really in fact, as the SafeZone uses its own Avast secured DNS server… and honestly I can hardly believe that there’s any issue there…
…and it better be not.
I know, it’s odd - but it’s all I could possibly think of.
We should wait till pk check this out… maybe he want to see what’s happening in this safezone.
I have the EXACT same problem!!!
Scanned with MBAM and SAS nothing got detected! I did some online banking also!!! (the homepage didnt load, the same as his screenshot. I went to my online banking site and it worked, but after seeing this post I went to see if I can goto google but no, I get redirected to the same site!!) I reset the safezone too nothing worked!
what ??? okay if you got a digital camera, can you take a few pics of your screen (as you cannot use any screen shot utility from the SafeZone) ?
edit: unrelated here, but on a side note, would be nice if Avast updated the SZ chromium version more often. It shouldn’t depend on a Avast update but be updated regularly. the current version 9 is particularly outdated :
(and this should include a couple of unpatched vulnerabilities)
I edited my post, please check it. and to upload images, the file size is too big, i ll upload on an external site.
Edit: the images are uploaded on sendspace and the links are