Is PayPal a phishing site?

AVG Protection
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Hi Mihaela,

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

We are already aware of this issue, our senior team has analyzed the issue and have declared it as a false positive.

We request you to add the PayPal URL to AVG's exception list as a temporary solution, and this issue will be sorted out in the next update.

Please follow the below steps to add the PayPal URL to AVG's exception list:

AVG Antivirus > Menu > Settings > General > Exceptions

You can later remove it from AVG's exception. Please make sure that you have enabled automatic update for your AVG Antivirus/Internet Security program (AVG Antivirus > Menu > Settings > Update).

We appreciate your patience in this matter.

Thanks,
Vishnu Vardan

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I was trying to buy something from the internet and AVG interrupted my payment with PayPal. It said: "Thread secured. We've safely aborted connection on www.paypal.com because it was infected with HTML:Paypal-B[Phish]. More threats may be lurking!"
If you require a screenshot, where can I post it? Please help!

Mihaela Trifan

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Hi Mihaela,

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

We are already aware of this issue, our senior team has analyzed the issue and have declared it as a false positive.

We request you to add the PayPal URL to AVG's exception list as a temporary solution, and this issue will be sorted out in the next update.

Please follow the below steps to add the PayPal URL to AVG's exception list:

AVG Antivirus > Menu > Settings > General > Exceptions

You can later remove it from AVG's exception. Please make sure that you have enabled automatic update for your AVG Antivirus/Internet Security program (AVG Antivirus > Menu > Settings > Update).

We appreciate your patience in this matter.

Thanks,
Vishnu Vardan