My forum is being errorneously marked unsafe

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

Just starting today, my Avast all of a sudden started blocking my forum with a message that says HTML:Script-inf [susp]. I know this is a false positive because I own/made the forum, which is hosted by proboards. hxxps://freemart.freeforums.net is the URL. I googled HTML:Script-inf [susp] and found similar reports. Even though I know my forum doesn’t have any malware, to give the benefit of the doubt, I ran this scan, which shows clean: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/623fc26b5d97fbe7d85ec395520458dfad0917678adb2c67b4663cd62531d77f?nocache=1

I need Avast to fix this false alert/block because this is scaring people away from my forum, but Avast makes it really hard to contact them. I can’t find a single place where I can contact them for this issue. Also, my Avast doesn’t give any automated option to report false positive.

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Hi, you can report a suspected FP (File/Website) here: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

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Lots of outdates software reported here - https://awesometechstack.com/analysis/website/freemart.freeforums.net/ - this could lead to exploitation.

Some vulnerabilities reported here - https://snyk.io/test/website-scanner/?test=220508_AiDcJM_7XY&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=webpagetest&utm_campaign=website-scanner - could be related to the previous check.

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Thank you for the link. I’ll try that.

5

Thank you for the info and your insight. I’m guessing there is nothing I can do about these since the forum was built with proboards’ system/tools?

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You’re welcome.

Its a very long time since I did my own websites, but the Host for your site may be responsible for the underlying software.

I have no idea if your forum software would handle the reported out of date software such as JQuery, etc.

These issues should be put to your Host and Forum provider.

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You’re welcome.