DaRuSsIaMaN
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I have Heimdal Security & Avast AV installed on both my desktop as well as my laptop. (These are not two anti-virus programs; Heimdal is supposed to complement any proper anti-virus.) On both I keep getting the following symptom intermittently. Heimdal pops up a notification telling me that it blocked something, and there's always two of them: one for popcash.net and one for onclickads.net. You can see the log below:
By the way, Heimdal does nothing to actually clean out any problems; its purpose is only to help block things. Anyway, when I do a Wi-Fi Inspector scan via Avast, it identifies my PC as having a problem and tells me that I have a DNS hijack.
Clicking on the Vulnerability ID brings up a page where Avast claims that my router is infected. However, I'm doubtful that this is accurate, because I checked my router settings, and none of my DNS stuff is out of order. Also, the network scan actually identified this problem on my computer, NOT on my router. So Avast seems to be contradicting itself here.
Also, before I installed Heimdal, which was not that long ago actually (several months?), I never experienced any issues. No random redirects of my browser, nothing else suspicious.
What's going on here and how to fix?
By the way, Heimdal does nothing to actually clean out any problems; its purpose is only to help block things. Anyway, when I do a Wi-Fi Inspector scan via Avast, it identifies my PC as having a problem and tells me that I have a DNS hijack.
Clicking on the Vulnerability ID brings up a page where Avast claims that my router is infected. However, I'm doubtful that this is accurate, because I checked my router settings, and none of my DNS stuff is out of order. Also, the network scan actually identified this problem on my computer, NOT on my router. So Avast seems to be contradicting itself here.
Also, before I installed Heimdal, which was not that long ago actually (several months?), I never experienced any issues. No random redirects of my browser, nothing else suspicious.
What's going on here and how to fix?