Most likely, Steven,
I did not ,look over the avast! team member’s shoulder, but it is the nearest guess I can make.
It could also be a PHISH site block (also counts as URL:Mal as this is a general kind of website block detection).
Para-Noid made a fair and good assumption on basis of the asafaweb scan results.
So when goodwitch does not mind the tracking and the SEO spam he can visit the site,
I forewarned by the WOT report would shun that site and that zedo infotracking bunch.
To get convinced on even how zedo is being manipulated click tracking, read: http://www.advertpro.com/docs/2.5/html/manual/thirdparty_zedo.html
But with NoScript extension and RequestPolicy active I can safely visit: htxp://www.care2.com/polls/vote?pollID=35265&results
without getting alerts.
and as always follow the avast! Shield alerts!
I know how accurate they are as I check them all the time all of the time.
Polonus and Steven, thank you so much for all your hard work looking into the 2 sites. The original Avast warning was for the comment pic, not for Care2 itself. I realize that the Care2 site has many problems and that others complain about the constant pop-ups. I never see them though as I use Firefox 24.0 with it’s pop-up blocker and also have AdBlock Plus installed, and WOT. It is a revelation when I log-on using Internet Explorer that I keep without any add-ons as a test browser when Firefox doesn’t work somewhere online, the site is then full of ads and pop-ups and it takes much longer to load pages than with Firefox. I didn’t understand everything in the reports at the links you posted, but did understand enough to be scared. In the 3 years I have been using the site this is only the 2nd time Avast, (used AVG or MSE previously), has warned me about anything malicious, the first was also a malicious URL that was linked to a comment pic. and was also an Avast warning.
I’ve been spending most of my time online on Care2 and now am thinking it is time to leave. It’s going to really hurt though, have made many good friends there. The Facebook security program thinks I am a corporation, wants a copy of government issued photo ID, and as I will never post a photo of myself online I cannot get back into that account. My Yahoo groups are now decimated due to the new NEO look and functionality that has made them almost impossible to navigate or post in. Once again thank you for all the information.