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ZZAP site URL

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:13 pm
by andy vaisey
I run Avast AV on my laptop and for some reason Avast (the company) has blacklisted the ZZAP site URL. I can only post this by disabling AV. Merman reports being able to access the site using his iPad.

Been like this for a day now.

Iain, you may want to look into this because your URL has been blacklisted by Avast for some reason!

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:24 pm
by andy vaisey
Posting this from my tablet without any issue.

Any computer I try with Avast AV on blocks access to the site...

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:22 pm
by Waz
Appears that AVG is blocking it as well (Avast own them, so probably using same intelligence)

My work laptop with Sophos is seeing it fine though.

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:20 pm
by RichH6109
Same here. No access from desktop/laptop (with Avast) but mobile totally OK.

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:11 pm
by Iain
Thanks for the info guys. I'll look into it. Hopefully the site hasn't gotten infected. I'll check that on my Windows partition with Norton.

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:17 pm
by Iain
Google doesn't mark it when searching for zzap64 through them.

I also checked the URL at virustotal.com and all packages come back with clean for the zzap64.co.uk URL, so that's good. AVAST doesn't seem to be on their list.

I still have more checking to do...

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2020 3:46 pm
by Iain
Norton doesn't have a problem with it. I am also downloading the whole site and scanning it, just to make sure nothing nasty has been added to it. So many files with dates of 20+ years ago! :-D

--update--

Norton and Malwarebytes didn't find anything in the files, so that's great. I'll see if there is anyway to submit a review of a site to Avast...

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:39 am
by Iain
I have submitted the site to https://www.avast.com/en-us/false-posit ... e-form.php so let's see if anything comes of that.

What message does AVAST say exactly when you try to visit the site with it running?

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:03 pm
by RichH6109
Iain wrote:I have submitted the site to https://www.avast.com/en-us/false-posit ... e-form.php so let's see if anything comes of that.

What message does AVAST say exactly when you try to visit the site with it running?
There was a blacklist popup on my machine. It's gone now.

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:01 pm
by Iain
Did you whitelist the site or is AVAST just not blocking the site any more? (Hopefully the latter) :)

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:23 pm
by andy vaisey
Iain wrote:Did you whitelist the site or is AVAST just not blocking the site any more? (Hopefully the latter) :)
Avast no longer blocking here! PHEW! Gota get my ZZAP! fix!

Re: ZZAP site URL

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:40 pm
by Iain
Em, I wonder if my submission did the trick (it was quick if so) or just co-incidence.

Anyway, good that it's not being blocked and even better that there was no malware either!