Davinia Virus on BBC website ?????

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello,

I have Avast 4.6.623 with VPS 0512-2 on a Windows XP SP2 machine.

When I attempt to access http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/english/4375155.stm I receive a Webshield warning stating that the page has the Davinia VBS trojan.

If I disable the Webshield I receive the same error message from the Standard Shield.

If I access the same page from my son’s PC (Win 98SE with AVG v.7), then the page displays without any warning.

Is this a false-positive, or is there a way to definitively prove/disprove the presence of a virus?

Thanks,

Jon Ingarfield.

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I get the same warning with avast! 4.6.635 on WinXP SP2.

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Looks like a false positive. Interesting.

Thanks for the heads up guys. :slight_smile:

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Exactly same warning here, BBC is a very reputable site so it must be a FP

BaNzI ;D

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4375155.stm Status:
POSSIBLY INFECTED/MALWARE (Note: this file was only classified as malware by scanners known to generate more false positives than the average scanner. Do not consider these results definately accurate. Also, because of this, results of this scan will not be recorded in the database.)
Packers detected:

AntiVir
No viruses found
Avast
VBS:Davinia
AVG Antivirus
No viruses found
BitDefender
No viruses found
ClamAV
No viruses found
Dr.Web
No viruses found
F-Prot Antivirus
No viruses found
Fortinet
No viruses found
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
No viruses found
mks_vir
No viruses found
NOD32
No viruses found
Norman Virus Control
No viruses found :wink:

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Wow - I didn’t expect a reply quite that quickly ;D

Thanks to you all for putting my mind at rest - I did wonder whether a BBC correspondent didn’t like us Worcester Warriors supporters :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: