Greetings -
Got the malware blocked message while trying to access the site hxxp://moviemaker.com. Tried to contact the webmaster, buy unfortunately I can’t get to the website at all! Ideas? Suggestions?
I have no doubt that this site has been hacked, as the site that the iframe tries to connect to as Scott mentions has been the subject of previous malware and browser exploits. Firefox safe browsing alerts on this site if you try to connect, image1 as does avast image2.
So the target site of the iframe still contains malware.
For some reason avast doesn’t like it when snagging the image of the firefox alert, why I don’t know, it didn’t used to do that with earlier avast versions.
Snagit 9.1, 1Click, Active Window ;D an absolute doddle.
I haven’t been tempted with the upgrade to version 10, I think $24.95 (I think is too much for an update). There is still so much that I don’t use in 9.1 I could probably stuck with snagit 6 which I think I started off with.
The VBA32 engine on VirusTotal is still running 2011.01.06 update, but on NoVirusThanks it have 08/01/2011, so there will be one extra detection when updated
Thinking back I don’t think it will have been the active window (I just used that to capture the avast alert), the alert came after doing a region scan of the firefox alert.
I don’t know what is going on with the web shield alerts since 5.1, but I no longer see any unp99999.tmp file in the avast5 folder that I would usually use for analysis.
I don’t use that method myself, but the avast5 folder never shows the tmp files, even if an alert is open now…wonder what changed? (though I suppose this is for another thread…)
It isn’t the image that is dangerous it is the hacked or replaced favicon.ico.
This is the little image that almost every site has that gets loaded into the browser address bar (image on the left of the address) when the page loads. It is because of this action that it is a target of hackers, etc. to try and load malware.
So it isn’t the image that is dangerous but the actions of the hackers, etc.