Walling Question - Flagged by AV Software

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Posted by Ken
Jul 17, 2023 at 01:45 PM

I just renewed Walling for another year as I have found it to be a helpful tool when doing planning or research on the web and am visiting a number of websites and want to organize those sites for future use. Their web clipper works reasonably well and it allows me to quickly create bricks in my walls (their terminology) that I can revisit or quickly move around as needed if I am re-organizing information. I have shared a wall with my wife as we are planning a vacation for later this summer. While she liked Trello when we previously it to plan a vacation, she is warming up to Walling.

Unfortunately, we both added some website to our wall over the weekend and when I went back to visit it, my Avast AV flagged my site with a phishing warning and aborted the loading process in my browser. I revisited it again yesterday to see if we could identify if there was some malware in one of the sites we clipped, but it would not allow me to load any of my site pages. Worse still, it would not allow me to open the site in another browser or in a private (incognito) window. I ran both Avast and Malwarebytes and my machine showed no signs of malware. I wrote Walling and they responded that it was a false positive. While I am not questioning their response, I am a bit frustrated as Avast is a reasonably popular AV program and I am wondering if anybody else has run into this issue. I know Avast can flag sites for using outdated scripts and did not know if this was the case or not with Walling. The site opened fine on my Chromebook and on my wife’s PC which does not use Avast. Should I see if I can whitelist Walling in Avast or are they flagging it for a reason? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, especially since I need to get back to working on a variety of walls I created (and my desktop is where I do most of my work).

—Ken

Posted by Ken
Jul 17, 2023 at 01:48 PM

I just tried Walling again this morning and now it is no longer flagged by Avast. Wish I knew why Avast flagged it in the first place. Curious to see if it gets flagged again. I’ll report back if it does.

—Ken

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