Have a laptop running Avast Free antivirus that has been consistently blocking wpad threats
(please see screenshot of Avast message with details).
Have tried a couple of things to try to assist but to no avail.
Tried scanning & quarantining found items with Malwarebytes & AdwCleaner then rebooting
Resetting resetting Chrome sync, removing all stored browser data & resetting Chrome sync. (It seems to happen when using Chrome, although not necessarily exclusive to Chrome)
Have attached scan logs from Malwarebytes, & Farbar but could not get a scan done with aswMBR.exe as laptop kept crashing during scan.
Any assistance is very much appreciated, thank you in advance.
Could you please help us with what we have to do resolve this? I see the problem with the url in the link you gave us but how does that help us to stop this? What do we have to do?
Hopefully someone can assist with the threat blocked warning that keeps coming up all the time. (We are not accessing the blacklisted site manually at all, something in the background seems to be doing so, and I can’t pinpoint what it is).
I’ve seen other folks with a similar wpad gremlin have been assisted with a fixlist file that superheros on this forum have sent to them to apply with Farbar. Holding thumbs here so that I don’t have to do a last resort clean install of Windows 10.
