Trust you are doing well.
Just curious to know abt the URL: Blacklist notification, cud’nt find any documentation
… is it some virus script codenamed “Blacklist”?
Thanks for the revert.
It says “infected with URL:Blacklist”
Will soon update the full string of notification.
I dont have access to this specific computer right now…
Hi,
Heres the full string:
“Weve safely aborted connection on www.locusinn.com because it was infected with URL:Blacklist”
I am merely posing this as an example … this kind of intervention has become somewhat frequent.
I have attached my web shield settings… for soliciting recommendations.
Hello, I’ve had the same problem for a long time, around half a year.
But, My url is not the same. My url is bbtbfr.pw
"We’ve safely abortd connection on bbtbfr.pw because it was infected with URL:Blackist.
Our virus specialists have been working on this problem and they informed me that this detection is correct. This is most likely caused by a browser hijacker.
It is nice that this isn’t a false positive, but avast isn’t removing the threat completely, it just keeps jumping and then reappearing. I’ve had it pop up about 30-35 times today (at least) even though I get the “threat secured” message, it will just reappear 5-10 minutes later. I don’t have my web browser open, it just pops back up.
I’d love to just kill it and not worry about it, rather than have the harsh warning dings every 10 minutes warning me about the threat - even when I’m not using the machine, it’s just sitting idle.
Well it looks like you could have an underlying problem (but without details, tough to suggest anything), something is trying to connect to something considered a blacklisted URL and avast is preventing the connection to that URL. What the problem is finding what is trying to make that connection.
Attaching a screenshot of the avast alert window might help and opening the See Details option may indicate what was trying to make that connection.
Without details we just can’t say what the cause is.
It may well be best to start your own new topic on this (possibly in the viruses and worms sub-forum) and we will try to help.
If this is something that pops up when you dont do anything, try clear your browsers surf history and/or run Malwarebytes Adwcleaner (not the same as malwarebytes antimalware)
Running localised scans on your system is unlikely to find anything if the source in web locations.
Had you clicked the See details option it would have given us (and you) more information on what originated it, e.g. your browser or a local computer file/source.
However haven run multiple local anti-malware scans and no detections would tend to indicate it is something that you were browsing or a link from a site that you were browsing.