How to Stop Avast From Blocking a Website
Follow the below steps for bypassing Avast site blocking:
- Press the “Avast” icon in the lower side and right corner of your screen (in the system tray) and choose “Open Avast! user interface” from the list of options.
- Press the Protection button.
- Then choose the Core Shields button.
- Afterward, disable the Web Shield
- Choose the period to temporarily disable the shield or press “Stop Permanently” to disable the module forever.
- Press “OK, Stop” for confirming the action.
- Finally, the Web Shield has been deactivated and now Avast will not stop any websites.
There might be a notification alert for Core Shields’s status. As Web Shield is an essential element for safety, you have to enable it over again as soon as you finished your process.
How to Whitelist a Website on Avast?
There’s an alternative way for bypassing Avast site-blocking simply by allowing an exclusion on your trusted websites. In this manner, Avast will prevent blocking these selected websites. Let’s see the steps:
- Press the “Avast” icon on the lower side of the screen for launching its interface.
- Go to “setting” by clicking on the “menu” from top right
- Make sure you are in “General” tab and click on “Exceptions“
- Press the “Add Exception” button
- Next, type the website URL and press the “Add Exception” button for adding the trusted websites.
- Website has been successfully added on the Avast exception list
Conclusion
Avast antivirus has incredible benefits but a few times this website issue has irritated the majority of the user. After learning these two methods, you can handle this issue very easily. Now that you have all the information for stopping Avast from blocking a website, we hope that you will implement it whenever it is needed.
