A false positive of the commonly used anti-virus scanner Avast ensures that users Outlook.com the former Hotmail, not be able to reach. Avast has the problem, admittedly, after complaints from users about the unjust blockade.
Among other Allestoringen, the forum of Avast and Twitter come reports of the false positive. When visiting Outlook.com users will get a notification with the anti-virus software, a malicious script has stopped. They can then not have access to their account at the webmaildienst of Microsoft.
The problems seem to be not regional, and in each case in combination with Firefox and Chrome. Some users report that the message does not appear when visiting Outlook.com with the Internet Explorer. Avast has the issue, its Spanish Twitter account confirmed: “The error with respect to Outlook.com is currently being reviewed and will in the very short term be resolved.”
Avast claims that his av software on more than 170 million systems installed worldwide, but there are next to pc’s Mac’s and Android devices. False positives are a regular at security suites and often have little, sometimes a lot effect. In 2011, Avast the dll file kernel32.dll as a virus, in which certain Windows programs no longer functioned. Avast took the most recent test of 23 av packages by AV Comparatives, a place in the middle of the table in what concerns the false alarm.