Avast free antivirus has begun (erroneously) flagging our site’s URL with an alert identifying it as HTML: PhishingWix-A [Phish] and indicating the antivirus has prevented access to the “dangerous” site. Not exactly correct, as the site loads before the alert is triggered, but attempting to reload it fails. And Avast is only flagging it on one PC, but not on another that uses the same antivirus and browser.
Like most Wix-built sites, we have a site login feature. However, we do not have any code or elements to accept online payments or sensitive info, which Avast might inadvertently identify as phishing. So it’s a bit of a mystery as to why our URL is setting off its heuristic warnings. And the Avast site offers no details as to what HTML: PhishingWix-A [Phish] actually is, or how to report a false positive.
Earlier this year there were reports of Avast erroneously identifying some free Wix sites with this phishing warning ( Wix Support article ), but this is the first I’ve seen for a Premium Wix domain to be affected.
Sure we can manually set our site’s URL as an exception in the Avast program to ignore the false positive phishing threat, but I’m worried about visitors to our site, who will likely assume our site has been compromised and will steer clear.
Is anyone else experiencing something similar?