Up until about a week ago i was able to stream full episodes on ABC’s website, but now when the video player try’s to start playing avast blocks the connection claiming it’s malware. ABC is a rather large TV network so i highly doubt their video player is actually infecting my PC. Any ideas on how to fix this or work around it?
Update: For now It looks like my only choice is to disable the web shield since no amount of exclusions is allowing the player to operate.
You can report a possible FP here: http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php
Hi Tim C.,
Welcome to the forums.
Is this the site? (Link has been modified to prevent accidental malware exposure): hXXp://abc.go.com
Just visited, and merely loading the page caused an avast! web block. Did not attempt to view any content or shows within.
See attached below:
Please do not turn off your webshield protection until we can investigate further, seems there might be something there, as in a drive-by download, where the visitor does not have to do anything at all other than visit a site to get infected. No clicking on anything is necessary. Sometimes there’s a reason for avast! behavior other than it is a false positive result; it can be a legitimate block on some nasty malware.
→ http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/abc.go.com/
Sucuri reports outdated software; this alone can make this site vulnerable to undetected web injection malware.
→ http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1409553734478
→ http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/e05f59c4c8ec8d7bbfccd22a515513b9-1409553309
→ http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/abc.go.com/]http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/abc.go.com/
→ https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/9e14ddc89156febc1ad9c57a473ea2ecb9be7d79007babe22c650b891cc0d3ff/analysis/1409553507/]
→ https://www.metascan-online.com/en/ipscan/NTAuMTYuMjI0LjIzNw==
→ http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1409555338785
→ https://wepawet.iseclab.org/view.php?hash=64a7cc90b50879cbefadc7f3fb676495&t=1409555378&type=js
→ http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/storage.uplynk.com/
→ http://scanurl.net/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fstorage.uplynk.com%2F&uesb=Check+This+URL#results
Finally, abc.go.com here: (type in abc.go.com in the http:// box and press check for current scanning results)
→ http://www.unmaskparasites.com/security-report/
Hi,
This was indeed a FP and was fixed already. Those of you who have streaming updated enabled should be able to visit the page without any problem, the others will have to wait a few hours for the next VPS update.