Hi,
I am using Avast since from its version 5 and its so far, soo good. But, very recently, after upgraded to version 7, its starting keep on popping me up whenever I run utorrent in backround to download some files.
“Malicious Url Blocked”
Whats really wrong?
can you attach a screens shot of the pop-up ?
right cllick avast tray icon > show last pop-up > then click the pin in top right corner to make it stay on screen
I’ve noticed the same thing:
(NOTE: The URL it appears to be blocking is: http:/vip.coralplayer.com, and is being triggered when uTorrent is running in the background.)
After doing some research, it appears as if a torrent file was attempting to “call home” to the coral player (total scam/virus/trojan) site, and Avast did its job well by blocking it and letting me know that it had blocked an attempt to connect to that site.)
This is exactly the same problem I’m having, even the coral player part. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out which file it is because it gives me a garbled hash.
I happened to make a thread about it, this thread was not on the first page when I created that and I did a search for “hash” but didn’t get anything. How’d you figure out which .torrent file it was, or did you just start by deleting the most recent?
I deleted all the small torrent files (as well as the data files themselves – movies) that were active in uTorrent at the time the warnings first appeared, and ran Malwarebytes and Sophos anti-rootkit afterwards just to be sure. Everything was clean. So I can’t really say which file was causing the problem, but it was something that was seeding via uTorrent at the time. Once I deleted all the torrents and the data files themselves the problem never reappeared. Fortunately, Avast was able to prevent any phone homes or problems. Avast wasn’t saying that uTorrent.exe was a Trojan; rather, that one of the (unknown) files it was seeding was bad. I figured whichever file it was it wasn’t worth trashing my computer over, so deleting the 15 or 20 files that were seeding at the time was a small price to pay. (In terms of pinpointing which one it was, there are probably hundreds or thousands of bogus torrents out there, so even if I’d been able to find the exact one, it probably wouldn’t have been much help to you in your situation.)
Any usefull info if You click the “more details” Button ?
It was weird…when I clicked on “More Details”, it just took me to an Avast page that didn’t really tell me anything about what was going on. I don’t know if it’s the same for other users.
That happens to me nearly every time I click on “more details”. Just a generic page. Granted, I don’t usually have a virus/malware problem so…
If Avast keeps popping up a “Malicious URL Blocked” message via uTorrent, try deleting ALL the .btapp files in the “.\uTorrent\apps” folder. No matter how many torrents I deleted the “URL blocked” message wouldn’t go away. I’ve been tinkering with this little problem on and off for almost a year and I finally figured it out yesterday. I read that this problem was fixed in an update to uTorrent 3.1.x but I tried uT v3.x and hated the GUI changes, so I’ve been using 2.2.1 ever since, and no more blocked “coralplayer.com” warnings.
If that’s the case I think that all torrent sites have the trackers ping back to them to inform the main site of the number of seeds and peers and the fact that you are a seeder/peer too. So if avast blocks such content, its a possible bug