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  1. Member Frank-0-Video's Avatar
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    Greetings ....

    Issue Began ... Monday 4/11/2011 around 3:00 PM ET (USA)

    Description .... Whenever using any of three web-browsers (Firefox, Opera, MS-IE) on my laptop, AVAST alerts me of a threat regardless of what I click onto. In each case, AVAST identifies the running process as the specific browser in use.

    A quick scan with AVAST was done, which singled out some html and htm files. I deleted those because I had backups. However, the AVAST alerts continue with web-browsing.

    There have been no AVAST alerts when using non web-browsing apps.

    A search of this issue on the internet indicates that I may have picked up something which triggers false alerts to AVAST. If this is so, and if AVAST can't find it, what is a good solution?

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    Not sure if this will help, but have you ran a Malware scan, etc? Spybot S&D...?
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    Greetings ...

    Running MalwareBytes (Free Version) now -- no results yet.

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    i'm wondering if your hosts file has been compromised...
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    Try updating your Avast definitions. My sister's laptop started doing that this afternoon - any attempt to use Firefox or IE to browse a page, and Avast would complain and block it. Scans (including MalwareBytes) came up clean, no suspicious processes, startup entries or rootkit behavior. I updated Avast's definitions, and suddenly, everything was back to normal.
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    Have you tried a boot scan with Avast? If updating the definitions doesn't work.....
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    Go to: http://www.virustotal.com/ and see what other virus programs do. I found some false positives from Avira and checked them out there.
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  8. Same thing happened to me this morning. It must've been a corrupt Avast update (I have it set to automatic). It just re-updated again for me & I can access webpages again without pop-up warnings.
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    Greetings ....

    Turned out to be a bad definitions update by Avast. They issued corrections within the hour, and now everything's running OK again.

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