F-Secure Events Reporting Lots of "Harmful Websites" Blocked that I'm not visiting

JackM
JackM Posts: 3 Observer
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In my F-Secure Events list, I've lately been seeing lots of blocked URLs, (such as :"html-load.cc" ). I'm not sure where this is coming from as I'm not seeing any messages while browsing and none of the URLs are anything I'm trying to visit.

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  • Ville
    Ville Posts: 843 F-Secure Product Expert

    It could be some other application than browser trying to load those sites and getting blocked. It could also be a browser extension that tries to load them while you browse.

    Ville

    F-Secure R&D, Desktop products

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  • Ukko
    Ukko Posts: 4,095 Superuser

    if do not think about provided example (which looks suspicious), then it could be, for example, an image search in Google Search or whatever. Usually, preloaded/loaded stuff (even those in the background or within the layout) can be blocked and visible in Recent Events (but I've never seen blocked items in the browser itself; so blocked entry in Recent Events was always unexpected to see). Or anything else like adverts. So you if can understand when / what visiting during these events - it would be easy (like certain website).

    But sounds that mentioned domain is part of another within .com zone and kind of tricky tool or company which some websites may opt-in to use. Maybe it is just recently categorized as harmful domain OR certain script/resource there.

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  • TingFeng77
    TingFeng77 Posts: 1 New Member

    I would like to provide more information about that domain

    It is a domain used by an anti adblocker and so called "ad recovery" service called Ad-Shield

    So, it is likely triggered by visiting sites that make use of said anti ad block service.

    I do not like that they use sketchy sounding domains and distance themselves from the domains in use, no where on the domains do they say that they are a domain used by the anti ad block service, instead there is a vauge notice about dmca and such

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