Why Avast Free has so many false detections?
do you have examples?
You might want to be more descriptive, what false detections are you talking about?
When I surfed, Avast alarmed me very often on safe websites. After that I made the decision to uninstall it.
When I surfed, Avast alarmed me very often on safe websites.There are NO 100% safe websites on the net ... safe today can be hacked tomorrow
Every 3.6 seconds a website is infected http://www.scmagazine.com/every-36-seconds-a-website-is-infected/article/140414/
Infected ad networks hit popular websites https://blog.avast.com/2015/08/20/infected-ad-networks-hit-popular-websites/
Malvertising Hits DailyMotion, Serves Up Angler EK https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malvertising-2/2015/12/malvertising-hits-dailymotion-serves-up-angler-ek/
Sucuri blog
https://blog.sucuri.net/category/website-security/website-attacks
https://blog.sucuri.net/category/website-infections/hacked
What part of avast was giving the alerts ?
web-module
Webshield, AOS, Webrep ?
don’t know, i used russian version