Malicious URL fake block abuse.

Viruses and worms
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So I have a dropbox set up for stuff for my own and for forums, however I get such things like.
http://imgur.com/pketN

Which knowing that basically 99% of it is pictures and such, and others are homework / programming stuff.

Now whether its the avast team decidedly take whatever reports and shove it down as an actual issue, or a 3rd party problem, it should be dealt with as it is so easily abused.

Apparently someone seems to have a vendetta against me on the forum or something, but its childish and rather annoying.

2

it is possible for malware to be inside JPG files. http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2012/04_04.xml?rss

nobody does things like creating false positives to feud against u…it is incredibly stupid.

i recommend u to scan all files in ur dropbox with tools like malwarebytes/ hitmanpro to see if they are safe.

if ur sure they are safe, please report the false positive @ http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4.0

edit 1: actually, just scan the offending file as in ur screenshot. (it is sig4.jpg)

3

Considering I set up and made the image myself, yes its malware free.

Also not that odd with people that are intolerant of any content, its rather childish but people do that.

4

Also consider this report for the AS you are on:
AS Name: AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc.
IPs allocated: 954368
Blacklisted URLs: 167

Hosts…
…malicious URLs? Yes
…badware? Yes
…botnet C&C servers? Yes
…exploit servers? No
…Zeus botnet servers? Yes
…Current Events? Yes
…phishing servers? No
…spam servers? No
…spam bots? Yes
…spam activity? Yes

This is a suspicious part of code there:
wXw.tumblr.com/share/photo?source= benign
[nothing detected] (jsvar) wXw.tumblr.com/share/photo?source=
status: (referer=s.imgur.com/min/js?13)saved 2932 bytes b77d48fc14ba0b124f5a4f1589d3c0a3c58a821f
info: [img] secure.assets.tumblr dot com/images/logo.png?alpha&5
info: [script] edge.quantserve dot com/quant.js
info: [img] pixel.quantserve dot com/pixel/p-19UtqE8ngoZbM.gif
info: [decodingLevel=0] found JavaScript
error: undefined variable s
suspicious,

polonus

5
i recommend u to scan all files in ur dropbox with tools like malwarebytes/ hitmanpro to see if they are safe.
malwarebytes only look for Executable files.... so why not use the 40+ malware scanners you find at www.virustotal.com that would include the one used by hitmanPRO and a bit more ;)
6

thx for pointing out the mistake :-[