Avast and Yahoo

There is probably something like a false definition for avast. By the clock, right click the avast icon, and choose update-program. This will update the definition files and the program avast. This should fix the issue. If not, I suggest letting them know by going to the avast forum and reporting it.

-Just checked, no issue accessing it. Update your definitions should fix the issue.


I would not suggest Microsoft Security Essentials at all based on the tests that have been conducted recently:

See here:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-co...t_2013a_en.pdf

http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/t...t_no%5D=132335

They failed to even get a basic score. Not sure why everyone around here keeps recommending an antivirus with such a bad detection rate. This is not an attack, just wondering. Avast is the best free antivirus currently, but keep in mind this changes from month to month due to diffrent threats, research. You have to look at consistency over a couple of months. A product getting that low of a score on any month is not acceptable. Avast is just pretty good for free.

Check out avira as well.

Best Paid consistently are Kasperky and bitdefender.



Usernameissues is correct. Avast does have a confirmed bug with internet explorer 10.
Although the issue above is with him and firefox.


I will say Avast and IE10 on my machine does not have any issues. But My settings are always different then everyone else. I am all about messing with settings of software.

@OP

Malware could be another cause of this. Are you sure avast is what is flagging it? Could you please post a screenshot of the issue you are experiencing? That would help us a lot more. You could also try Problem Steps Recorder.


I rarely see compatibility problems between antiviruses and other things.
The reason internet explorer crashes is due to internet explorers protected mode. The protected mode is internet explorer is very aggressive. It lets nothing between it and a webpage come in contact. This prevents malware such as keyloggers and other threats from interacting with the page, while also protecting internet explorer from the webpage due to evil javascript code or bad active x controls. This is a very good thing and I am glad internet explorer has upped its game in security. Problem is, this added protection prevents Avast's scanner that scans webpages from doing its job. (As well as the avast addon that says if a site is safe. Like WOT) Avast has to find a different way of scanning the pages, and/or work with Microsoft on a fix.

But regardless, the user is using firefox and not internet explorer.


I just tried it on my machine once more and got the message the user is getting.
Confirmed. This was after my definitions have been updated.

I will let avast know.

Started the thread on avast forum.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=132869.0

Found this:

THIS site is blocked for a reason. It was compromised!

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=132441.0

http://support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/...php?id=1257489

Do not go to the site in the subject line. This is a valid block.

derekimo said:

andrew129260 said:

Started the thread on avast forum.

I am not sure if I would be allowed to post the link to it, didn't see anything in the forum rules but I do not want to take the risk.

Go ahead, people do it all the time.

Thanks, wasn't sure if it wasn't allowed or not.

See important note above!

Next time I should research more. Whew!

mike1977 said:

Using IE, IE crashes

Seems UsernameIssues is on topic and explains why
I would add to that note,
Good and Free system security combination.

andrew129260 said:

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The reason internet explorer crashes is due to internet explorers protected mode.
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Just to be clear, there are two (levels ?) of the Protected Mode within IE10.

Protected Mode

I do not recommend that people turn this one off. IE10 still crashes with this off and the AVAST plug-ins (add-ons) enabled. [I did not show that in the video below, it was already getting too long.]


Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM)


While it is true that you should restart your computer once you enable EPM, once you have done that restart, you can then toggle EPM on and off without subsequent restarts.

The default settings for IE10 on a 64bit OS is to NOT enable EPM. In that state, the 64bit OS will will create a windowless 64bit instance of IE10 that oversees the 32bit windows (visible) tabs and 32bit plug-ins. Once you enable EPM (and maybe restart the computer), the tabs become 64bit (even more secure) and they use 64bit plug-ins. The virtual machine used to make the video below already has EPM enabled and has already restarted.

You might want to watch this in the full screen mode and at 720p.


Sorry that the video is so long, I was attempting to find a way to show that IE10 will automatically disable the two 64bit plug-ins (add-ons). You will get those two notifications the first time that you start IE10 after installing AVAST8... to recreate those two notifications, I disabled the plug-ins and then re-enabled them.

Notice the URL that I start with for all 3 browsers it an HTTP address. All 3 get redirected to the same HTTPS URL. I've followed this issue on several other forums and AV sites, but I've not found any info that will help me to replicate the warning from AVAST for Firefox. Can someone please tell me how to replicate that warning?

Code:

http://mail.yahoo.com/

https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?&.src=ym&.intl=us

I've not seen any forum threads that have convinced me that people are landing on a phishing site. There are a few posts elsewhere that question a javascript file on some (but not all?) Yahoo mail log in servers.

BTW, I've not seen too many posts in other forums attempting to document IE10 crashing with these AVAST plug-ins... hence my harping on that issue. Sorry if the OP does not use or care much about IE10. It would be nice to her from the OP again


edit: Here are the versions of the 3 browsers: