The other day, Avast’s Webscanner notified me that my homepage, Yahoo, was infected. Whenever I navigated to it by opening the browser, typing the address, and clicking on Home, it would announce that a virus had been found and allowed me to abort the connection.
I solved it (so far) by activating a restore point from the previous day.
Was this a false alarm? I highly doubt the Yahoo page was infected.
Btw, the “file” that the Webscanner identified was along the lines of “www.yahoo.com/xxxxxxx” where “x” represents a number.
It looks like your virus database isn’t up to date, if you had checked in the viruses and worms forum you would have seen about 6-8 topics about this. It was a false positive and was corrected in a VPS update two days ago I believe.
So I would have to ask are you getting regular automatic VPS updates ?
My Avast is always scheduled for automatic updates. However, when I was alerted by the notification of the “infection” I activated system restore and “solved” the problem at the time. Obviously, when the automatic update ran again, it downloaded the latest updates.
Sorry I didn’t see the other topics, but I haven’t been here in ages. I rarely have issues with Avast, which I appreciate.
I too rarely have any issues with avast, but it would be very unusual if you were the first to post about a problem, especially if it were something like yahoo. So I always check the list of topics that normally shows I wasn’t the first to experience the problem.