Anyone else experiencing false negatives from Avast?
It Looks like Avast is interpreting the opendns redirect as a trojan.
If you put any incorrect URL or a blocked URL into your browser address line then Avast warns:
URL: http://www.website-unavailable.com/?wc
Infection: JS:Redirector-BOB [Trj]
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Avast products have a long history of not working well with OpenDNS. As rotblitz said 2 and a half years ago, these types of things need to be taken up with Avast as OpenDNS cannot do anything about them. Or you can just use another product that does not have the conflicts with OpenDNS that Avast does.
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Its still happening on the test site http://www.internetbadguys.com/
It scared me at first but I've reported it to Avast so will see if they do anything about it this time. Maybe if everyone reported it from the popup every time it happens they will finally look at it and stop wasting everyone's time.
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Did you ever consider to simply get rid of such resource consuming and annoying additions on your computer? I don't use any of those on Windows 8 and 10, just the built-in Windows defender.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/i-dont-use-anti-virus-software-am-i-nuts/
http://www.windowscentral.com/do-you-need-pc-antivirus-2017 -
Yep. Defender seems much better these days and I did use it as the sole A/V on a PC I recently built from scratch. Unfortunately Avast carried over on my PC from the pre-upgrade W7 and I'm a bit reluctant to uninstall it as that has some risks but given the choice I'll avoid Avast and AVG ongoing.
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