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Originally Posted by WiredGuy
Have your sites been re-flagged after being cleared or were they never cleared despite them saying it was? Have you been getting the AV warnings directly from the software itself or from a third party like VirusTotal (the issue might be with VirusTotal not updating their definitions and not necessarily with the direct AV product)?
WG
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As of today
Flagged
“Cleared” (but no effect)
Flagged
“Cleared” (but no effect)
Flagged
Cleared (legitimately, on 19th March)
Flagged again within 4 hours.
Now, they are saying the URLs are *not* false positives and there is still malicious content to remove. Block reason “URL - Scam”.
The AV warnings are coming directly from Avast Webshield (their software) and the Avast browser extension. Avast is not included in the list of Virustotal vendors, but we are clean across the board in Virustotal.
We run a bare-bones “rules” lander for dating - no JS pop-ups, no back button redirects, no countdown timer, full privacy policy, terms, disclosure, contact us page. We do not collect emails or user info of any kind.
Only thing left that I suspect is our outbound tracking URLs being the issue - most of the SOI/DOI adult affiliate offers are also blocked by Avast. They must be blocking us for being in the URL chain and redirecting traffic to those dating and cam pages (which are clean in all other AV vendors)
I would estimate around 50-60% of affiliate ad URLs that run across the tubes, are being blocked by Avast. Not sure how those other advertisers are dealing with this issue, as in most cases they cannot control the final offer page from being flagged.
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Originally Posted by Matyko
working with Avast, Norton, McAfee and the rest is a nightmare. So many false positives, so shitty algos flagging everything and their moms ..
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Indeed..