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Hello ,
I have Avast pro on my OS (W 7) I currently get a malware pop up and the site is blocked…However if i uncheck the option for "scanweb HTTP traffic " it will work fine again …
However I am still not sure if this is a clean solution ??? I have another OS which has the HTTP traffic webshield on , but that one works fine…
Any help here would be greatly appreciated !!
system
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Are they both showing the same virus definition version in Summary?
What is the website? Please post without http:// and without www.
Like “google.com”
Before we go about troubleshooting this, make sure you’re aware of the False positive in yesterday’s virus definitions.
https://blog.avast.com/2011/04/11/false-positive-issue-with-virus-defs-110411-1/
Update the virus definitions on that computer and see if you still have a problem.
If so, post the NON-WORKING URL of that site as Zyndstoff suggested.
Always nice to have a fellow American confirm my ideas. ;D
Don’t mess with Texas!
Howdy
Zyndstoff
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Before we go about troubleshooting this, make sure you’re aware of the False positive in yesterday’s virus definitions.
https://blog.avast.com/2011/04/11/false-positive-issue-with-virus-defs-110411-1/
Update the virus definitions on that computer and see if you still have a problem.
If so, post the NON-WORKING URL of that site as Zyndstoff suggested.
Yup…looks like that was the problem, I checked it back on again and it’s working fine…thanks for the qwik replies !!
lot’s of sweating, nervous breakdown…but thank god for this forum I know know it was a false positive …
Glad we could help.
And to answer your question:
However if i uncheck the option for "scanweb HTTP traffic " it will work fine again …
However I am still not sure if this is a clean solution
No, it’s not a “clean” solution. You’re basically turning off the web shield, which means it doesn’t scan webpages. Not to say that if you downloaded something infected from a website that the on-access scanner wouldn’t pick it up, but still not as secure as finding it in the first place.
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Got the same here:
avast is up to date current version is 110413-0
It blocks the following: speedkings.be/team/allweb/
is there something wrong or is it a false positive ?
rgds
Luc
Pondus
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tootje,
This is somewhat unrelated, since this is an actual detection.
avast is alerting on a script that is at the very end of the page, the same one indicated by unmaskparasites.
system
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I understand but Avast reported “maybe it is a false positive” and I was confused about the news from the last couple of days.
In the mean time: problem solved.
thanks anyway