I went on this site thinking it was the site for the guitar riff o matic. Avast said there was a trojan and I aborted the connection. Anyone know what it is?
well riffomatic.com redirects to http :// riff-o-matic.com/index.htm (Dr Web link scanner just hangs when trying to check both links) so I don’t know if the redirect is what might be triggering it but I can get into riff-o-matic.com page with firefox without any alert. There is however, a pop-up window to try and have you sign up to a newsletter.
So it may well be something that only triggers in IE, get a lot of activeX alerts which I declined, so it may also have been one of these activeX controls being downloaded which is triggering the alert. I wasn’t brave enough or stupid enough to accept activeX. But the page displayed fine without the activeX or scripts.
I just tried that site from a Google search. I got no alert from Avast and I’m using IE7 Beta2. I did get the pop-up box that David mentioned.
I’m using firefox and it’s not actually the riff-o-matic site. Go to google and type in riff-o-matic and click search. A few listings down, (for me it is the third listing), there is one that says Untitled document. the url under it says riffomatic.com. This is the bad site.
OK … I did it again and, in fact, checked the first 3 in this search …
… and I got the same site on all 3 as I did in the above search, no alarms, nor nothing unusual.
But as David said above, Dr Web hangs on all 3 of those links. That is kind of odd. ???
I think one of the additional security elements of IE7 is it is meant to deal with activeX controls differently so they don’t launce/download automatically.
Yep … and it appears to be working. 
Yep IE7 sure does and it is GOOD 8)