Malicious URL message keeps popping up every few minutes
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Avast keeps popping up with a ‘threat has been detected’ message. This has been happening every few minutes for the past 6 or 7 hours. It happens in IE, Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
Malwarebytes and Anvi Smart Detector both report no issues.
WTF is going on?
TIA, geoffas
OpSys: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
follow this guide and attach (not copy and paste) logs from Mawarebytes / OTL / aswMBR
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
@ gruff
I’m not so sure.
If you have utorrent I would suggest that you clear all of its cache/history and remove any seeding links as it is highly possible you have a malicious link in there.
Please excuse any incorrect terminology I don’t use any P2P applications as I feel they are a high risk activity as you have no control over the data on these remote/seeds.
If they still occur then it is possible that something else if misusing utorrtnt as Pondus implies.
@DavidR
Thanks for the idea of clearing out utorrent’s cache, etc. I removed all completed torrent files and the Avast! notifications have stopped.
Cheers!
gruff
You’re welcome.