How do I report a false positive for a website which is consistently tagged by avast! (free, v5.0.677 on WinXP SP3) as a Trojan Horse because of its Javascript menu? I’ve posted a query to the webmaster of the site to verify that it is a false positive (I suppose there’s some chance it was hacked and poisoned), and when that’s affirmed I’ll incorporate an exclusion in the various computers I have which run avast!.
FYI, The website is for the Texas State History Museum, and the pop-up reference box identifies the offending element as “HTML:lFrame-IV [Trj]” with the “object” of http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/js/menu.js and an action which is to abort loading of the page.
If I remember rightly this was picked up before (in the viruses and worms forum) and it isn’t only avast alerting on this file, hXXp://wXw.thestoryoftexas.com/js/menu.js.
Given that I don’t see anything obvious in the file, but I’m not too familiar with javascript. I have submitted it for further analysis.
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