View Full Version : Lots of viruses about today
frostbite
27th Dec 2009, 14:28
I've never known Avast to be so active before!
It's reported viruses on several of the sites I normally visit (not this one, so far) including Yahoo Mail.
Unless they're trawling for donations of course.
green granite
27th Dec 2009, 15:13
Lots of spam as well.
mustpost
27th Dec 2009, 16:39
Yup, can confirm a lot of this...make of it what you will
"html script-inf"
Avast html:script-inf (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=41771.0)
I reported a 'false positive' to Avast on Thursday - this time on downloading Norman 2009 malware cleaner. No reply yet (well, it is Christmas....). Is it possible they have done an 'AVG' with their database?
Tarq57
27th Dec 2009, 22:44
Every 3.6 seconds a website is infected. (http://www.scmagazineus.com/every-36-seconds-a-website-is-infected/article/140414/)
ab33t
28th Dec 2009, 10:51
All those specials people are going for now ,
frostbite
28th Dec 2009, 11:48
One of my regulars has just come up with "This Site is Closed", saying that a virus has corrupted the database.
Thanks Avast - that was the first one it spotted.
Tarq57
28th Dec 2009, 21:26
I reported a 'false positive' to Avast on Thursday - this time on downloading Norman 2009 malware cleaner. No reply yet (well, it is Christmas....). Is it possible they have done an 'AVG' with their database
If it was reported by using the function to send it from the chest (quarantine) you would generally not get a reply.
Re-scan the file from the chest from time to time, following VPS updating, and see if it still scans as infected.
If it was reported on the forum somebody would normally reply.
Avast are usually pretty fast at correcting reported FP's.