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 Author: SandyDT11 View Messages Posted By SandyDT11
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 04:54
 Subject: AVG Warning Malicious code
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SandyDT11 (374)

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Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website
 Author: Silverbirch1975 View Messages Posted By Silverbirch1975
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 06:23
 Subject: Re: AVG Warning Malicious code
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In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Tried to visit my own store and I was blocked by norton, Can visit it on my phone
but not my computer.
 Author: TheBrickLinkTeam View Messages Posted By TheBrickLinkTeam
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 07:35
 Subject: Re: AVG Warning Malicious code
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In Technical Issues, Silverbirch1975 writes:
  In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Tried to visit my own store and I was blocked by norton, Can visit it on my phone
but not my computer.

Thank you for reporting this, we are investigating the issue with the relevant
teams and will get back to you. We appreciate your patience.
 Author: nammasnart96 View Messages Posted By nammasnart96
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 08:49
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In Technical Issues, TheBrickLinkTeam writes:
  In Technical Issues, Silverbirch1975 writes:
  In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Tried to visit my own store and I was blocked by norton, Can visit it on my phone
but not my computer.

Thank you for reporting this, we are investigating the issue with the relevant
teams and will get back to you. We appreciate your patience.

I'm having the same issue can't checkout, can't visit stores, I can't
even get to my own store page. Please get this fixed ASAP! It's aggravating
for both buyers and for sellers!
 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 09:05
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 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 09:05
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1001bricks (55898)

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In Technical Issues, nammasnart96 writes:
  In Technical Issues, TheBrickLinkTeam writes:
  In Technical Issues, Silverbirch1975 writes:
  In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Tried to visit my own store and I was blocked by norton, Can visit it on my phone
but not my computer.

Thank you for reporting this, we are investigating the issue with the relevant
teams and will get back to you. We appreciate your patience.

I'm having the same issue can't checkout, can't visit stores, I can't
even get to my own store page. Please get this fixed ASAP! It's aggravating
for both buyers and for sellers!

Note that if you've AVAST or NORTON, it's not BrickLink the problem,
it's well known crappy software
 Author: Guigui16 View Messages Posted By Guigui16
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 09:13
 Subject: Re: AVG Warning Malicious code
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Guigui16 (1253)

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In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
  In Technical Issues, nammasnart96 writes:
  In Technical Issues, TheBrickLinkTeam writes:
  In Technical Issues, Silverbirch1975 writes:
  In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Tried to visit my own store and I was blocked by norton, Can visit it on my phone
but not my computer.

Thank you for reporting this, we are investigating the issue with the relevant
teams and will get back to you. We appreciate your patience.

I'm having the same issue can't checkout, can't visit stores, I can't
even get to my own store page. Please get this fixed ASAP! It's aggravating
for both buyers and for sellers!

Note that if you've AVAST or NORTON, it's not BrickLink the problem,
it's well known crappy software

Meme problème chez moi (avast), afin ce qui est dure c'est qu'une bonne
partie des acheteurs sont surement bloqués aussi
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 09:14
 Subject: Re: AVG Warning Malicious code
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SylvainLS (52)

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In Technical Issues, 1001bricks writes:
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Note that if you've AVAST or NORTON, it's not BrickLink the problem,
it's well known crappy software

Yes, those give false positives all the time and that leads to people either
blaming the innocent or not caring about alerts anymore.

The Windows ecosystem has been teaching people to click Yes/Continue without
reading anything for nearly 40 years now.
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 11:25
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  Note that if you've AVAST or NORTON, it's not BrickLink the problem,
it's well known crappy software

I've not used Norton for at least 25 years.

It used to be a running joke that Norton was excellent at stopping you getting
a computer virus. Not because it was good but that it was so slow and ran far
too often that it made your PC so unusable to the point that you didn't bother
turning it on.
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 12:16
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In Technical Issues, yorbrick writes:
  
  Note that if you've AVAST or NORTON, it's not BrickLink the problem,
it's well known crappy software

I've not used Norton for at least 25 years.

It used to be a running joke that Norton was excellent at stopping you getting
a computer virus. Not because it was good but that it was so slow and ran far
too often that it made your PC so unusable to the point that you didn't bother
turning it on.

As someone from a family how used to have Norton (for what seems like forever),
I can confirm that is accurate best decision ever to switch
 Author: RebelliousBrick View Messages Posted By RebelliousBrick
 Posted: Nov 14, 2025 11:00
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In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Who still pays for that kind of software???

Windows has a great build in defender since windows 7 or 8! All those other softwares
(AVG, MCafee, Norton, etc) are expensive, dont work properly and are massive
resources hogs.

I haven't paid for an overpriced antivirus software in 15+ years and I have
never had an issue.
 Author: TheBrickLinkTeam View Messages Posted By TheBrickLinkTeam
 Posted: Nov 18, 2025 23:49
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In Technical Issues, SandyDT11 writes:
  Tried to buy this morning as soon as I tried to AVG blocked site as due to Malicious
code on Store Website

Hi - we've confirmed with our teams that no code updates should have effected
this. We have reached out to both Norton and McAfee to have us whitelisted,
you can help us by doing the same! Likewise you should be able to add our site
to a "safe list" within your anti-virus software

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!