This feature was enabled by default, and it displayed online shopping recommendations–in other words, ads that presumably make Avast money when you click them–as you browse. Here’s one we’ve covered before: Avast installs an “Avast! Online Security” browser extension when you install the main security suite, and they later added a feature named “SafePrice” to the extension in an update. RELATED: Avast Antivirus Was Spying On You with Adware (Until This Week) Example 3: Avast’s Online Security Extension Once Included Ads and Tracking And when it does, McAfee and Norton can force their browser extensions on Edge users and stop redirecting them to the old-and-out-of-date-IE. Seems like not only are these pages not actually 'known' (only 'suspected', and wrongly suspected, at that) to be 'dangerous', but Norton is screwing with legitimate businesses by scaring away their customers (albeit probably out of incompetence rather than malice.Thankfully, Microsoft Edge will soon support Chrome-style browser extensions.

Not just a lot of false positives, but a lot of people complaining about how hard it is for them, once their company has been tagged by Norton, to get any kind of response to get untagged. So I decided to see how many complaints there are of Norton false positives - as it turns out, A LOT.

I have a hard time believing this many legitimate businesses somehow have malware or are doing business with companies that have malware, plus none of my other malware detection software ever identifies a threat with them. All the pages that I got this warning on are either companies I trust and have done business with, or links supplied by those companies (e.g. I've gotten a number of warnings that the pages I was trying to visit were a 'known dangerous webpage'.

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