Nearly every time I enter websites I am getting a “Threat resolved” notice from Avast.
This has been going on for the last 2 days. I am visiting many websites these days as part of a research, and this pops up again and again on many websites. I might have a window of websites where it doesn’t happen, but then again I have a surge of notices website after website.
I have done a Virus full scan of my PC and it finds nothing (I haven’t done a boot-time scan).
After reading that I should update Avast, I noticed that I hadn’t seen an update. I updated and restarted my PC but the notices are still popping up. Right now I’m doing a second full scan of my PC after updating but it’s taking quite long.
Can someone tell me what’s going on? Are these false positives? Are these websites infected or is it my PC? Is there something I can do? Or should I just ignore these notices?
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Is it always the same site that is in the Avast alert ?
Were you intending to visit this site ?
If 1 is Yes and 2 is No
Then the likelihood is there is something in your browser cache (you say you have cleared that) or a new or recently updated or recently added browser Add-on.
Have you tried browsing with add-ons disabled ?
If that resolves it the problem would be finding which add-on.
1-2 I am using Google advanced search tool to find a variety of information. Probably I visit about 100 websites from the search results each day.
Not all links to a website trigger a Threat Notice. Sometimes it’s 3 to 5 websites in a row, sometimes I can go an hour or so with no notice, and then have 3 or more in a row again. Yesterday I had much less of this than what I had the two days before, and it seems as i it were dying down. We’ll see today, just starting off with my daily research.
The only Add on I have in the Browser is Avast Anti Track Premium on Chrome. I rarely use Edge.
If this keeps on happening today I’ll switch to Edge to see if it happens there, but it seems AntiTrack is the problem picking up false positives for some unknown reason.
In fact, I have found all Avast services, AntiTrack, Clean up and Updates are very intrusive, interupting one’s activity and slowing down things. I’d like to know if other antivirus programs have the same problems.
I disabled the Chrome extension “Avast Antitrack Premium” in the browser: Didn’t solve the issue.
I removed the Chrome extension “Avast Antitrack Premium” from Chrome: Didn’t solve the issue.
Disabled “Avast Antitrack Premium” completely in my PC: Seems to have solved the problem.
As “Avast Antitrack Premium” comes as part of the Avast Premium Security subscription, will it get fixed by uninstalling-installing Avast again? Would I have to ask for a new subscription key? Or will Avast read this post and fix the thing?
As "Avast Antitrack Premium" comes as part of the Avast Premium Security subscription, will it get fixed by uninstalling-installing Avast again? Would I have to ask for a new subscription key? Or will Avast read this post and fix the thing?
Unfortunately as an Avast User I can’t answer that, but I will try to bump it.
Now I got another notice for “landingpage…” despite I have “Avast Antitrack Premium” completely disabled. The date/hour stamp between this and my previous post should show how long my fix lasted.
This is very strange.
This morning before my last post I made a Boot-time scan, the day before I made a full scan. And in both cases there is no virus.
My next step shall be to work on another computer that also has this same Avast subscription to see what is happening there. In another forum someone said he had something similar going on.
I worked on another computer (Windows 11 - Microsoft Edge) and I rarely got a notice.
I tried Edge on the other computer (Windows 10) and I got no notices.
I uninstalled Chrome and downloaded a new install (probably a new version - I didn’t check)
Apparently this is a crash between Avast and a version of Chrome. I’m surprised though that not many people are talking about this.
However, even if now I don’t get any notices, or only real positives, I still have doubts on what is really going on.
A boot time scan (attached image) says I have no virus. However, my computer is slower in starting up to what it was a pair of months ago, despite I have I have Driver Updater, Clean Up, and I’m quite careful in what I do.
A full virus scan, after turning off Anti Track, shows Avast considers threats have got into my computer and it can’t resolve them (attached image). Now that I don’t get any notices in every website, does it mean those bots never existed or Avast doesn’t see them? Does Avast not consider them malware anymore or are they getting by through another door?
I’d like to hear an expert explanation about this.
Given you say these threats were detected on a full virus scan and these are URL, web related detections it looks more like they are referenced to an archive file listing prior alerts. However the full path isn’t visible. nor can the (i) icon Information be expanded to give more details. So expert or not, how could one conclude what they are without the full information before them.
What or where this is I have no idea as the full path isn’t listed in the screenshot and my on-line translation app can’t interpret/translate image text.
The boot time scan is only reporting a file that can’t be scanned.
The fact that the computer has slowed doesn’t necessarily mean the system is infected (if that were the case, I would hope Avast would alert).
