Does Microsoft IE7 website have a virus?

Viruses and worms
1

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 today and I get a virus warning from avast! when I click on their website link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

2

I too got the same virus alert. The workaround was instead of clicking on their homepage “ad” (which is hosted by atdmt - why???), click on the downloads button (left nav bar), and follow the links to IE7.

3

Looks like a false positive on a JavaScript on another page linked to by an ad on the main page.

Antivirus Version Update Result
AntiVir 7.2.0.31 10.19.2006 no virus found
Authentium 4.93.8 10.19.2006 no virus found
Avast 4.7.892.0 10.19.2006 VBS:Zulu
AVG 386 10.19.2006 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 10.19.2006 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 8.00 10.19.2006 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20060426 10.19.2006 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 10.19.2006 no virus found
eTrust-InoculateIT 23.73.28 10.19.2006 no virus found
eTrust-Vet 30.3.3143 10.19.2006 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 10.19.2006 no virus found
Fortinet 2.82.0.0 10.19.2006 no virus found
F-Prot 3.16f 10.19.2006 no virus found
F-Prot4 4.2.1.29 10.19.2006 no virus found
Ikarus 0.2.65.0 10.19.2006 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 10.19.2006 no virus found
McAfee 4877 10.19.2006 no virus found
Microsoft 1.1603 10.19.2006 no virus found
NOD32v2 1.1816 10.19.2006 no virus found
Norman 5.90.23 10.19.2006 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 10.19.2006 no virus found
Sophos 4.10.0 10.15.2006 no virus found
TheHacker 6.0.1.101 10.19.2006 no virus found
UNA 1.83 10.19.2006 no virus found
VBA32 3.11.1 10.19.2006 no virus found
VirusBuster 4.3.7:9 10.19.2006 no virus found

4

You might not be able to detect it everytime since it happens every now and then … Try visiting it through Microsoft’s homepage (click on the big IE7 ad link) and that’s how I mostly get the alerts.

5

Reported before…
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=24353.msg199994#msg199994 :‘( :’(