AVAST decided this morning that Patriots.win is unsafe. I immediately deleted it.
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Just a little back story. I have had AVAST on one of my computers for a couple of years. I put it on originally because I do some banking with that computer. In the two years it has never completely blocked a website that I have gone to. I was already tired of it because at least once a week it tries to sell you an upgrade. I have 4 other computers at my house, on those I just use windows defender and it seems to work fine. Today was the last straw so I deleted it without really looking into why it blocked Patriots.win any further.
Remember, it it's free, you are the product. https://www.cnet.com/news/antivirus-firm-avast-is-reportedly-selling-users-web-browsing-data/
A couple of years ago I joined Lifelock through my work. I think this year they added Norton. I can put that on my computers, I just haven't because I have had issues with Norton slowing down computers in the past.
LifeLock (NortonLifeLock) was Symantec. Symantec ended their discount program with the NRA (along with Alamo, National Car Rental, Enterprise, TrueCar, First National Bank of Omaha, and others) back in 2018 after that Florida high school shooting
Using Norton VPN because of Rush. But when you use Norton 360 you have to remember everytime to turn the VPN. It isn't automatic which is stupid.
I had SurfEasy VPN (I think it was) but, it couldn't connect over the companies guestnet.
Lol, I simply reported the false positive to avast last night and fixed it for everyone.