My family member went on the computer and they went to check their E-mail on Verizon. When they went to the page that shows their E-mail, that small Avast box on the bottom right corner of the screen said something around “Avast has blocked [URL/Virus name here]”. Apparently it was from Verizon.
I’m not sure what kind of virus it was, because no pop-up came up, it just said it blocked something from the Verizon Website.
Can I find the “report” about what it blocked in Avast?
I did a quick scan with a up-to-date MBAM and even though it took 2 minutes longer than it usually does (Is this a bad sign?) it said it was clean.
Could Verizon really give you a virus? My family member said it is owned by the government.
My family has ordered some things over the internet with that E-mail and they need to be able to view the E-mails to see if the person they bought the item from received their order.
It’s important that we have a E-mail, but I don’t want to get a virus from Verizon either.
Avast did block this virus correct? But could Verizon really… Give you a virus?
Thanks in advance!
don’t worry avast have done what it should it block the website and its malware on it, the site avast block the attack is probably hacked.
please write what site it was avast stopped the malware but please chance the url to wxw instead of www so other users don’t get this problem aswell.
and speaking of malwarebytes it found nothing and that’s good but i took more time to scan your computer could be because you have more files on your computer.
you could also scan with superantispyware to get an second opinion if you like to be sure your computer is safe.
I’d post where the virus/malware came from, but I don’t know where to find the results. Like I said, nothing popped up about Avast stopping malware from getting on my computer. The little bar at the bottom right corner of the screen telling me that it blocked the malware is the only thing that happened. Is there a way to find the “report” or “result” of it blocking the malware so I can find the place where the malware came from?
And if you don’t mind me asking, does it help Avast somehow when we post the place that the malware came from?
Also, I did a quick scan with Avast and it came up clean as well, but there was also a file that’s reason why it couldn’t be scanned was weird:
It was: C:/Program Files/Toshiba/TOSAPINS/…/wtsetup.exe
Why It Couldn’t be Scanned: The file is a decompression bomb
other reasons why files can’t be scanned are
Many programs (usually security based ones) password protect their files for legitimate reasons such as AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy, there are others (and avast doesn’t know the password or have any way of using it even if it did know it).
Files that can’t be scanned are just that, not an indication they are suspicious/infected, just unable to be scanned.
So it’s possible that Verizon Central got hacked? How likely is it that it would have really got hacked?
My family needs to use their Verizon E-mailf for a lot of things, is there some way to “get around” this?
Has anyone ever got malware or almost got it (Like me) from Verizon Central, other than from E-mails and just from the website/ads on the website itself?
It is probably not an archive (decompression) bomb. avast! identifies several files associated with steam (online gaming) installations, especially quake-related files as archive bombs.
A REAL compression bomb is located here: 42.zip. Avast identifies this as an “exploit: archivebomb:”. A 42 KB file that, when fully unzipped, takes up 4.5 Petabytes of space.
Is this a bad thing? Doesn’t ‘exploit’ mean malware?
Is the link (With the hxxp in front of it) a malware website leading to malware I may have?
Sorry I’m kind of confused.
It’s just a technical/historical website, on that website, there is a link to 42.zip, which is the archive bomb mentioned. Going to the website is safe (the website is not actively malicious), downloading the zip file is safe because avast will catch it in the webshield. Even if you downloaded it to the desktop it could sit there for time and all eternity and not cause problems. Back in 2001, 42.zip was sent as an attachment, maliciously, at a time when virus scanners didn’t know how to deal with archive bombs, and they would attempt to decompress the archive and crash. Modern antivirus programs don’t have such problems, and archive bombs aren’t really in the wild anymore insofar as malware is concerned, they are more or less a vestige of days past.
But still, is Verizon Central safe? Has anyone had any problems with it?
EDIT: I researched some things and it looks like Mozilla Firefox is a lot safer to use than IE, which is what my family member was using when the computer almost got malware on Verizon Central. (My family member was using Internet Explorer)
I will definitely be using Mozilla Firefox from now on. I’m not sure how much that will help however.
I apologize for the double post.
My problem isn’t as big of a deal as the people that have bad viruses/malware, so I really don’t care if you guys answer this as quickly.
But my family really needs their E-mail, and I’m afraid of going back to Verizon Central.
Could it have really got hacked? Would the Firefox add-on to prevent ads stop that bad ad from trying to put malware in my computer?
What other websites are very safe so my family use it for their E-mails without having to worry about bad ads?
Sorry for all the questions.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I read about a pretty big cyber attack called “Operation Aurora” could Verizon have been hacked by that? But I also read some bad feedback about the website in fact having malware on it. I even read that there is phishing on it (Though these may be from the E-mails).
Could hackers hack into my family’s E-mails and get our passwords to all our accounts because the website has malware, or can that only happen if you have malware on your computer?
What do you guys know about Verizon.net?
