avast antivirus web shield keeps popping up

[manlykeweaver465]

i dunno what this is but it keeps popping up at the bottom of my screen its only started happening today and its annoying me while im on my pc 

 

1. what even is it and why do similar links keep popping up 

2. and how do i stop it from doing that

 

thanks.

[DolphinOps]

6 hours ago, manlykeweaver465 said:

i dunno what this is but it keeps popping up at the bottom of my screen its only started happening today and its annoying me while im on my pc 

 

1. what even is it and why do similar links keep popping up 

2. and how do i stop it from doing that

 

thanks.

its possible that there is malware on your pc attempting to insert code into webpages and getting blocked, its also possible that avast is simply blocking javascript from being used in websites.

[manlykeweaver465]

10 hours ago, DolphinOps said:

its possible that there is malware on your pc attempting to insert code into webpages and getting blocked, its also possible that avast is simply blocking javascript from being used in websites.

well i ran a scan and stuff and no viruses found and i havent gone on any dodgy websites or downloaded anything remotely suspicious but i disabled it now so its all good 

[Nord]

Out of my personal experiance with avast (free version), from around half a year ago, its a disgustingly bad AV. Both in detection aswell as software "quality".

 

I have never seen that popup though but what DolphinOps posted seems about right.

Avast has no / or no proper anti-maleware, assuming you use the freeware.

Get these two programms:

https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/

http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/adware-removal-tool-for-pc.html

and let them scan for maleware.

(be a bit carefull with adwcleaner though, it has a very high heurisk and hence false-positive and will, for example, even mark Pokki start menu on win 8.1 as maleware. So dont just blindly delete everything )

 

Afterwards I would suggest you to download either Avira or Bitdefender and get rid off avast or get a paid virusprogramm. In which case I would recommend bitdefender or kaspersky.

[DolphinOps]

4 minutes ago, Nord said:

Out of my personal experiance with avast (free version), from around half a year ago, its a disgustingly bad AV. Both in detection aswell as software "quality".

 

I have never seen that popup though but what DolphinOps posted seems about right.

Avast has no / or no proper anti-maleware, assuming you use the freeware.

Get these two programms:

https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/1-adwcleaner/

http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/adware-removal-tool-for-pc.html

and let them scan for maleware.

(be a bit carefull with adwcleaner though, it has a very high heurisk and hence false-positive and will, for example, even mark Pokki start menu on win 8.1 as maleware. So dont just blindly delete everything )

 

Afterwards I would suggest you to download either Avira or Bitdefender and get rid off avast or get a paid virusprogramm. In which case I would recommend bitdefender or kaspersky.

I'd just like to add that malwarebytes https://www.malwarebytes.com/ is perhaps the most effect malware removal tool in existence so you may want to try that too.