I use AVAST! as my real-time virus screener. AVAST! has recently updated their software to rate sites in terms of reputation. HubPages, no matter who wrote the article, consistently gets poor ratings. Does anyone know why?
Sounds to me like HP needs to poke AVAST! with a stick...
I use Avast as well.I've been noticing the orange rating for a while so I pulled up my sub domain and it's rated the same as HP.If other anti virus suites are rating HP the same,that must be Impacting views heavily.I don't even click on sites rated as low and for the reasons HP has been sighted for so it 's costing us views for sure.
by Thelma Raker Coffone3 years ago
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by Imogen French3 years ago
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by cfin4 years ago
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by Thomas F. Wuthrich3 years ago
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by Thomas Swan4 years ago
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by Omnivium5 years ago
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