Avast forum

[mick92z]

Hi, is Avast forum down ? I cannot reach it. I don't use Avast, but people on Yahoo are saying Avast is reporting mutiple webpages as infected, some reporting all webpages infected

[littlebits]

Something is wrong with Avast, it is not updating and their complete website is down.

It is reporting several safe websites as infected.

I hope this gets resolved soon.

Thanks.

[mick92z]

I guess Avast has gone nuts. There forum must have crashed from people seeking advice

[Page42]

Lots of very similar pain coming from avast about a year and a half ago...
avast is flipping out

[Jadda]

I have Avast, and it's blocking almost every page I try to access. Web Shield is going nuts! Can't update Avast either, so I guess something has happened to the servers. Deactivated Web Shield and File Shield at the moment to be able to surf the net.

[robinb]

I tried to go to the site also and it will not let me in and worse it is saying that www.comcast.net is infected- huh??
It seems it is doing this after the last update
on my side it cannot update but i have clients who are calling me and telling me there is a problem and this sites and others are having problems

robin

[hayc59]

Its all over the web
BBR forum
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r257...malware-ridden.
and I see VLK is on maybe he can help?

[doktornotor]

They has something similar about two weeks ago... Oh well, was fixed in a few hours then.

[hayc59]

Well I just tried getting the latest .def update and stalls
out...good thing for me I guess, NO POP-UPS

[robinb]

mine just tried itself and it said it was having problem connecting to the server.
Hopefully they see this here and all over and fix this like asap
I also found email sending is very slow- I closed off the residential shield and email goes. Put it back email stalls
robin

[pbelter82]

zDWat ever you do do not do a boot time scan with this update upplied, it will move EVERYTHING to the CHEST!!!!!!!!!! Kind of reminds of Cheech & Chong.
Hey Doctor, Everything goes up his nose.

I haven't had any complaints about e-mail Yet.

[acuariano]

yea i reported these problems too in their forum

[vlk]

The problem is solved by definitions update 110411-2. Please update and you should be fine.

Apologies for the inconvenience!
Vlk

[doktornotor]

Well, no wonder the forums are down... Looks like a new record. (Previous was something like 3,500 during the last major screw-up)

[pbelter82]

So, you were lucky to get there. Were there any available fixes? or Ideas on when they might have something?

[watcher]

Somehow, Firefox 3.6.16 is not being affected by Avast blocks in my machine, only Opera 11.01. IE6 also isn't being blocked here, but I saw screenshots in other forums showing newer versions are (IE9?). I used facebook.com homepage (logged off) as test page.

Now I ask, even this being an error in the definitions file or a bug in the engine, isn't it strange that Avast would block some browsers' connection attempts and not others?

[doktornotor]

Originally Posted by pbelter82

So, you were lucky to get there. Were there any available fixes? or Ideas on when they might have something?

Already fixed. See the post from Vlk (CTO) above.

[vlk]

Also please see here: http://blog.avast.com/2011/04/11/fal...defs-110411-1/

[hayc59]

Originally Posted by vlk

Also please see here: http://blog.avast.com/2011/04/11/fal...defs-110411-1/

thanks for the very fast fix VLK!!
Still cant get to your forum though??

[pbelter82]

Well it seems that it is gonna take a while before I can get the update. Good thing we are between shifts.

[vlk]

The forum is still under DDoS, most likely from desparate users seeking help. Hopefully, the blog will get enough exposure for the situation to calm down soon.

[hayc59]

ok cool and thanks alot

[pbelter82]

Ok, what goofball hit that big red distribute button (LOL). Sounds like you guys are having a for real Monday. Oh well, haven't been able to get the AMS server to grab the update and my phone is off the hook, now. Dinner will be cold and wah wahh waahh.

[Ibrad]

Originally Posted by vlk

The forum is still under DDoS, most likely from desparate users seeking help. Hopefully, the blog will get enough exposure for the situation to calm down soon.

I am pointing the people from Yahoo Answers over to that blog post so some people will be checking it out.

[skbaltimore]

Originally Posted by Jadda

I have Avast, and it's blocking almost every page I try to access. Web Shield is going nuts! Can't update Avast either, so I guess something has happened to the servers. Deactivated Web Shield and File Shield at the moment to be able to surf the net.

Exact same thing here; for a couple of hours, it was total hell. I uninstalled/re-installed 6.0, but was still unable to update. It was like Web Shield was having a total nervous breakdown or something -- it just started blocking everything. Finally, about 30 minutes ago, I was able to update and everything seems to be ok now. (I sure wish avast gave the option to save settings when uninstalling, though. Now I have to go through the process of telling it that HiJack This and PerfectDisk are "trusted" programs.)