Avast suddenly started saying Twitter is unsafe??

Jon_01 · 1 September 2018 at 1:02PM

Anyone else had this happen today?

Avast is saying that the Twitter home page 'Could have harmed your computer' with a large banner that can't be removed?

Peter999_2 · 1 September 2018 at 1:03PM

In my opinion, Avast is correct.

Does it do the same to facebook as well?

Jon_01 · 1 September 2018 at 6:07PM

Peter999 wrote: »

In my opinion, Avast is correct.

Does it do the same to facebook as well?

Valid point

But shouldn't be be saying your mind could be harmed??

JJ_Egan · 1 September 2018 at 6:49PM

Seems to be a bit of a problem with scripts that Twitter runs on start up .

David_Aston · 1 September 2018 at 7:20PM

Cracking posts Jon, Peter.
JJ I should thank you for your technical answer.

AndyPix · 3 September 2018 at 9:04AM

2 words ..

Ditch Avast

Aletank · 3 September 2018 at 9:49AM

What are others preferred Antivirus over Avast then ?

AndyPix · 3 September 2018 at 10:18AM

^^ What is your operating system ? Windows 7 , 10 ?

Aletank · 3 September 2018 at 10:30AM

AndyPix wrote: »

^^ What is your operating system ? Windows 7 , 10 ?

Windows 7 using Chrome

debitcardmayhem · 3 September 2018 at 10:52AM

Aletank wrote: »

Windows 7 using Chrome

I would suggest bitdefender free for that , just my opinion though
https://www.bitdefender.co.uk/solutions/free.html

AndyPix · 3 September 2018 at 11:24AM

I second that

Avast suddenly started saying Twitter is unsafe??

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