HTTPS Everywhere is not particularly advised for platforms where avast is not scanning https.
With partial https enabled and the present security header situation, some here in the forums advise against it.
The statement was made a long time ago that “using https everywhere is a bad idea”
since it prevents Avast from checking the sites for malicious content.
Avast or any other AV can’t check what it can’t see. Using https everywhere makes you AV blind.
Moreover you have to be aware of sites with so-called mixed content.
Remember for a lot of sites that are forced to use https the security header situation is not optimal to say the least.
An example here: https://www.uploady.com/#!/download/FouiM5aocH2/wiKm56SjCf5er_Ik
Now test some of what you find here: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/
and then reach your own conclusions why the majortity of websites both http and https are still grossly insecure and attackable.
Loads of sites are on outdated servers that are being badly managed and configured and webmasters keep websites up with
outdated and vulnerable CMS and even more vulnerable (free) plug-ins and themes.
Never assume your surfing is without risks and act accordingly and do not click randomly and become a victim of
adware tracking, monitoring, malcreants, ad retargeting, fingerprinting, viruses, worms, phishing, scams and fraud.
I hope you always will find the reliable, secure websites in between. Oh and feel protected through Avast ;D
Here Google admits it has failed to make a clear-cut and understandable SSL warning: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43265.pdf
So the ultimate alert for an insecure https page or SSL warning is a fail.
Users do not understand why there is no padlock, why security headers weren’t installed or configured not according to best policies,
why there are certification mismatches, insecure items on the SSL-encrypted site, POODLE vulnerability through insecure protocol sequences
etc. etc.
I understand the implications of that google warning on a https website and won’t click on it - no-way. This because it is insecure and going there is dangerous, also towards my privacy. But there are still users that seek to circumvent access, because they are completely unaware of the dangers of insecure SSL websites.
Scan for: htxp://d2whgtudg2hrtn.cloudfront.net
Hostname: -d2whgtudg2hrtn.cloudfront.net
IP address: 54.230.50.128 *
System Details:
Running on: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Via proxy: 1.1
Unable to properly scan your site. Site returning error (40x): HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Unable to properly scan your site. Site empty (no content): Content-Length: 0