Whether the site’s move to a new ISP has something to do with it being reported as a malicious site is unknown. Avast users who want to browse The Pirate Bay have to disable the web shield in order to gain access.

An Avast techie claims that TBP was blacklisted because it linked to malware. “I wouldn’t expect that a site for pirated and cracked things remain in the status “everything is ok” for ever…,” he adds.

The Pirate Bay and several other torrent sites have had trouble with antivirus programs and web-filters in the past, almost always due to malicious ads that were served on the sites by a third party.

Update: Apparently the listing was a false positive after all. “I’m sorry about this blocking – it is really a false positive. New vps update (it will solve this problem) will be released soon,” one of the Avast team members writes.

Article from: FreakBits