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    Default Why does Avast warn that the woodworking forum is marked as a Phishing site?

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    When linking from this site, to the woodworking forum, I get a warning on the screen that the site has been marked as a Phishing site: and is not trustworthy

    WHY:

    I use Avast, professional,

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    BobL is offline Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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    Something on the WWF website, probably even something that WWF has little control over like a third party Ad, or an obscure line of code you can't even see, is triggering the warning by Avast.
    Its happened before and eventually the bosses get round to fixing it.

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