I upgraded from version 10.x of “Avast Free Antivirus” to current version 11.1.2245. Until earlier this year, I could access “old-computers.com” without triggering a ‘Threat blocked’ popup box and blocking the website in “Mozilla Firefox (Extended Support Release)” version 38.5.0 being the current release. All my ‘plug-ins’ are update including “Adobe Flash” and “Adobe Shockwave”. “Java Runtime Environment” (JRE) is disabled by default. The same thing happens in “Internet Explorer” version 11.0.11.
It makes no difference which page I am viewing like news page (which automatically redirects to when entering 'http://www.old-computers.com/") or article about a vintage computer -
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=28
Is this a false positive or something more serious? See beneath.
None of these links to the same website in the other message forum’s are viewable -
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=22796.5;wap2
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=25851.msg211537#msg211537
Thank you,
Dylan.
Firefox
“Infection blocked
URL: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=28
Infection: HTML:HideMe-F [Trj]
Process: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”
Internet Explorer
“Infection blocked
URL: http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp
Infection: HTML:HideMe-F [Trj]
Process: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”
In the “Mozilla Firefox” and “Internet Explorer” -
"The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
- The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
- If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
- If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web."
