Our son's Dell Windows 10 Home laptop - if connected to the internet and an internet browser open - reports via Norton Family every few minutes that there was a request from the laptop to open http://wpad/wpad.dat.
Is this a virus or a wrong configuration? How can this be solved. A virus scan has not led to any detected viruses.
Dear All,
starting from yesterday in the afternoon, my daughter's pc is triyng to connect to http://wpad, even if nobody is using it, but Norton Family locks this connection.
This connection starts about every 20 minuts for 4-5 times.
I performed a full system scan using Norton 360, but nothing has been detected.
So I tryed to check connecting to the same destination using my notebook, not protected by Norton Family but only by Norton 360, but my Fritz!Box modem-router locked the connection due to security reasons related to DNS rebind protection.
So, if at the beginning I was thinking about a “false positive” detected by Norton Family, the security lock of the modem router let me thinking about a threat not fully recognized by my security suite, so I am a little bit concerned.
Do you have any good suggestion for detect and remove malicious process that is starting the unwanted connection?
Operating System: Windows 10 Home, build 19041.685.
Web browser: Chrome 64 bit version 87.0.4280-88.
Many thanks and best regards,
Luca
We are having the same issue with the win10 laptop from our son. Hopefully the fix will also solve our problem.
Hi Transilvanian,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
This is not a virus or wrong configuration. This URL is auto navigated by web browsers internally.
We have now added this URL as part of the ignored list and you should no longer receive these notifications. It should get reflected in a day's time.
Thanks and Regards,
Norton Family Team
Dear All,
it seems I solved the issue, disabling "Automatically detect settings" in "Lan Settings" of Internet Options, but I don't know why I had the error....
Many thanks and regards,
Luca