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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5452 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
Why is my Kaspersky anti virus keep telling my this site is malicious and dangerous and keeps blocking it?
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Tom Admin
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Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:26 pm
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HitTheTrail Member
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HitTheTrail Member
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I added NWhikers as a trusted site but it made no difference
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Tom Admin
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Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:41 pm
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Can you clarify? Both links generate a warning?
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HitTheTrail Member
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Big red banner that says denied access. And now the entire site has gone bonkers and is just a scrambled mess.
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HitTheTrail Member
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Am doing this on a pad type device and both of those sites come up fine. Just my desktop with Kaspersky that is having a problem.
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Tom Admin
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Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:01 pm
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I've never been a fan of Kaspersky. Really annoying for them to just blacklist NWH. Surprised they don't get sued more often by webmasters for bogus false positives and no easy way to resolve or get more specifics. I did go to this page and report NWH site as "clean" but not holding my breath they will get to it any time soon. My recommendation would be to ditch Kaspersky. I've been using free avast for years without a virus, malware, etc.
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5452 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
I contacted Kaspersky support and they said if I really did trust the site just change my format in the list of trusted sites to include some wild card symbols. That seems to have worked. Thanks for your effort. I just re-upped my five device license with them for nearly $100 so will consider dumping it for the free one later.
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Ringangleclaw Member
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Who do you trust? The Ruskies or that weirdo John MacAfee?
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Tom Admin
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Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:27 pm
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Tom_Sjolseth Born Yesterday
Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 2652 | TRs | Pics Location: Right here. |
Kaspersky offers better detection than Avast, and it has a ton more options too. Kaspersky has denied faking false-positives, it was two ex-employees (who sound disgruntled to me) who made that claim. True it is not free, but I gladly pay for it and can sleep at night just fine.
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Tom Admin
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Wed Nov 16, 2016 7:20 pm
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Tom, were you getting blocked too? As far as Kaspersky, I'll let their competence speak for itself. FWIW, call me crazy but I'm running Win 10 without any antivirus software installed (other than defender) and I sleep fine.
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Randito Snarky Member
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Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:38 pm
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Tom_Sjolseth Born Yesterday
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Again, it's only alleged by two ex-employees who AFAIK never provided any type of evidence and Kaspersky denies it and says the employees are disgruntled. Eugene Kaspersky, in response to the original Reuters article tweeted, "I don’t usually read @reuters. But when I do, I see false positives".
I got the alert too and so do other people who use Kaspersky, but I do think this is a false-positive.
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