How to Stop Avast Antivirus from Blocking Website
Avast Antivirus software is a robust virus protection program that detects and removes virus and spyware. It is designed to protect data and computer from most type of cyber attack uses a set of the module to scan various part of your system and block malicious detected code.
However some website are safe and some are suspicious so it is using one of the module web shields that block a suspicious website, occasionally it blocks legitimate website too. Usually, it is because of the low application occurrence within the Avast community so Avast can’t properly tell whether the program is safe or not so, in this case, it will try to protect you from the valid website which is actually useful for the users in some case. So if you intended to bypass Avast and visit a blocked website believing that the website which you are going through is absolutely safe, you can disable this feature just as quickly. So here are a few steps by which you can readily disable it:
1. Right click on Avast Icon in the bottom right corner of the screen( in the system tray) and selects open Avast; 2. Click “Real-Time Shield” in the navigation pane at the left to see all the modules; 3. Click on “web shield” module on the left to view its setting in the right pane; 4. Selects the “stop button” to disable the web shield; 5. Select “stop for 10 minutes” to briefly stop the shield or click “stop permanently” to permanently stop this module; 6. Click “yes” to confirm the action and disable the module; 7. Now you are free to visit the website, when you finished visiting, restart the web shield by clicking the “Start Button” in the setting where you previously clicked the “stop button”.
There is always a choice of the website where you always visit. So if you find your favorites website blocked by this antivirus software, you have another option Adding website to the exclusion list, there are some step by which you can accomplish this task too:
1. Double click on the “Avast” icon in the system tray to open the user interface: 2. Click the “Real Time Sift” tab on the left then click on the web shield item; 3. Click on the “Expert setting” button to open the Web shield setting window; 4. Click Exclusion at the left; 5. Click once in the “Enter address box” in the URL to exclude section and type URL of the website; 6. Click the “Add” button to add the Website to the exclusion list; 7. Add all the website that you want to visit and click OK to save the new setting, 8. Now you can close the window.
As these steps look easier but it might be complicated in case of some other incidental cases. So if you experience any glitch while accomplishing this task our experts are here to help you via toll-free Avast Phone Number 1-855-2546999. They not only assist you with same issue but will also provide a welldescribed detailed solution to some other glitch facing with this application. Source: https://goo.gl/AbvbhG