AVG Antivirus Free keeps aborting connections to websites on Google Chrome?

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Hello. I’ve been having this issue since the beginning of the day. Whenever I go onto a website (and that includes really safe websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia) on Google Chrome, AVG AntiVirus Free tells me that it has aborted the connection to that website because it was infected with “Other:Malware-gen [Trj]”. I’m not exactly an expert in this field, but I believe that Trj is short for Trojan. I’ve had AVG Antivirus Free on my laptop for almost two years now, and this is the first time that this has ever happened. I also have Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox on my laptop, so I checked if the same messages would appear if I went on any website on those. No messages appeared.

Here’s an image to show you what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/hkvpz95.png

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Can you check your DNS server settings whether they are correct, or use some well-known ones like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1? Do you have your router secured?

In case it happens in only one browser, I would also check the browser extensions, they might be injecting something into pages.

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If AVG is false flagging a bunch of legitimate sites like this; either you have malware or you just need to update the virus database and/or the program.

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Wiki is a biased and unreliable cancerous site anyway.

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This actually worked. I uninstalled Google Chrome, and I reinstalled it. The reinstallation gave me a newer version of Google Chrome, and I haven’t had any messages from AVG Free since.

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I did a scan on AVG earlier. It said I have no malware.

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Then where would you find information from? An unfinished site from 2004

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Plenty of other online encyclopedias that aren’t poorly sourced.