Working with avast free on my windows 7 running firefox.
I am getting MALWARE BLOCKED popup off of two news sources I regularly check.
hrrp://frontpagemag.com/|>{gzip}
I’m trying to access hrrp://frontpagemag.com when I get this error. Happens with hrrp://newsrealblog.com as well.
I turn off my AV and site works/loads fine.
i must say it’s a good idea, so if itsn’t a fp, then your pc is now infected 
just send a sample to avast…
If you need to ask whether it’s a FP or not, then the above is an extremely bad idea unless you run a sandboxed browser. :
For suspected FPs use this form to submit to Avast: http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?loadStyles
Hi user65, welcome to the forum
I appears that avast is alerting on ads, similar to other threads in the forum…
Scott
Why doesn’t the warning box have any clickable links so that we can investigate the threat found?
Also is there any way to turn off the voice message that it’s updated 3-4 times a day?
Thank you for the confirmation.
??? : So that you can conveniently infect yourself? : ???
Welcome to the forum rob108
Look at the settings - sounds options.
As for the topic, and the related ad site,
It is listed in HpHosts:[nobbc] http://hosts-file.net/?s=uac.advertising.com [/nobbc] ← Engaged in Phishing, interestingly, added in 2009 (24-01-2009)
Not sure what to make of that really…
Starting today, I started getting malware alert for Weather Underground site
[http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:60290.1.99999]
Infection: HTML:Script-inf
Connection aborted
I’m thinking this must be a false positive with the latest definitions
I too get the Malware blocked notice. Just started today, 3/21/11. I go to this web site everyday to get my emails. Http://att.my.yahoo.com
Everytime I come back to the page Avast gives me the warning.
Also during my emails I would get the notice on some of them. The ads do change with different emails.
I also started getting malware popups on multiple sites just today. Seems to be a lot of twitter activity of Avast malware popups starting today. What gives?
This is false positive, fixed in internal version. We’ll push it out ASAP.
I had heard from another source that They have been trying to get people to BUY their internet security program. I’ve also been getting these blocked malware warnings. Everytime I open MY yahoo. Then it tells me to go to Avast’s site and tells me I shouldl update to their latest program. Sorry I already have the latest of the FREE Avast and quite happy with it.
If this is force feeding us to BUY this new program. Stop with the fake alerts
Somehow I do not feel this is an advertising ploy - that is the landing page for any virus alert you get
Thanks for the conspiracy theory. The inconvenient reality is stated just one post before yours, and trust me that people prefer sleeping at night to fixing a buggy VPS version. :
No i am not going to say me too lol, just glad i am not the only one, i can live with it till sorted, no way am i taking AOL off lol
I also got a Malware warning at CanadaFreePress.com
1st time I have seen it there.
Looks like Adblock Plus is the best AV out there - didn’t get any alert on at least half the sites people kept complaining about here. ;D
Mine just started doing today as soon as I opened AIM. It is getting seriously annoying; it is doing it non-stop now.
This is what I get…
Well of course Avast has always wanted people to buy their pay version but they have never been pushy about it and I don’t think they are being pushy about it now. They really don’t have to provide a free version of their product if they don’t want to but I for one am thankful that they do and I am even more thankful that it is of the fine quality that it is. For me Avast has become a standard that I measure other anti-virus / anti-malware programs against. Before I started using Avast I used to run AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy, Spyware Blaster and Ad Aware Plus (does it even still exist???). Now I just use Avast Free and I find that it does more than all of those other programs did all put together. If I run into something that Avast has some difficulty with I might run a scan with Super Anti-Spyware or Malware Bytes and I am usually taken care of. I say go Avast it is the Free Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware solution that is worth paying for. Um… and no I don’t work for Avast.
Charles