Suspicious connection blocked. Phishing or False Positive?

Nick R

The recent days bitdefender continuously block these connections.(They have appeared many times the recent days and they seem to be associated with the same domain/site.)What does this mean?I also has fear that my browser msedge.exe has hijacked. What should I do?

Alexandru_BD

Hello,

As the notification states, the connection is blocked because that page has an expired certificate. This is a detection from the Online Threat Prevention component, more specifically the Encrypted Web Scan function, which scans the certificates of websites. External links to websites that do not have a security certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority, have an unmatching or expired security certificate are considered unsafe domains, and could contain phishing, malware, or unwanted software.

If you do not visit the website yourself and you still receive these notifications, then your browser connects to it either through allowed notifications or toolbars/extensions. I suggest that you clear the cache & cookies, remove any unused/unknown extensions and if the issues persist, reset your browser. You can find detailed steps here:

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/2471/

I hope this helps.

Regards