Clicking it activates avast!'s iAVS update window with no updates.
I suspect that this is not legit since three exclamation marks (!!!) and VPS has just been updated.
Can this be new kind of malware that injects itself in avast!'s memory space?
Has anyone experiences anything similiar? Fixes / solutions avaible?
Yes it is legal, as fas as I am concerned. Unless someone injected rogue in avast!'s site and disgused it to look like identical.
Also, I use Home Edition and never plan to pirate Professional Edition. If I need Pro Edition, I buy it.
Well considering your image shows the current version 090601-0, I’m not aware of avast actually making that check, though the image looks very like other avast! po-ups in that area. That however, is no guarantee that the alert is legit, but if the iAVS update process looks the same as normal it might just be legit…
Check your system date and ensure that the day/month/year are correct and adjust as required.
If the date is correct, try a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Change/Remove button and scroll down to Repair, click next and follow.
If you get the alert again after having done the above - Working on the assumption it might be a bogus alert (I haven’t seen this alert before), I would suggest these two applications to confirm there is no rogueware trying to trick you.
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it and report the findings (it should product a log file).
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, On-Demand only in free version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later. - 2. SUPERantispyware On-Demand only in free version.
I already ran both, neither found nothing.
And my system clock was 2 month forward. I feel stupid now, even tho I have no idea when and why did it change.
Still, if that alert is legit, I would suggest avast! to change it to proper grammar. At least I find it very suspicious as it is now.
Well the most common reason for the system date being incorect is someone using it as a calandar to check a future date and failing to reset it back to the correct date.
The Grammar may not be strictly correct, but error messages that have a restricted size are often compromised by their brevity.
The main thing is that everything is now as it should be and I have found out that avast also alerts to what it perceives to be an out of date VPS version (not just the Windows Security Center).