[FIXED] [VBS: Malware Gen] False positives Vir. def: 170221-1 22.2.2017 0:08:41

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The problem I posted earlier, with screen clips- the Avast pop-up that warns of a VB malware detection on various Amazon pages. I think it happens on a number of pages due to prefetching.

Try clearing out your browser data. You can’t blame Avast because your browser still reverts to old, outdated,
and saved data.

I did it that even though logically, it should not matter…unless the old website did actuallt did have malware, but the new data didn’t. The provlem is with Avast.

You are correct, the original problem was Avast. Once they fixed the problem, it was no longer their foult if you are looking at old websites.
That’s why you need to clean out old outdated stuff. One of the reasons why CCleaner is as popular as it is.

Sorry, but that does not make any sense. If Avast looked at a piece of website data(HTML, Javascript, etc.) and said “Malware!”, then realized that was false, and amended their code to look at the same website data and say “OK”, then it should not require me to do anything with my browser cache. The only circumstances where that would make a difference would be if :

1. Amazon truly did have malware on their site
2. Amazon changed their data to be the same functionally, but written so as not to get a false flag from Avast.

In any case, as mentioned, I dumped my browser cache and the problem persists.