threat detected?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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when i type in: microsoft.co.uk or microsoft.com avast pops up saying"threat detected" and that it’s just prevented my pc from crashing. wtf?

2

:o :o :o

I just tried microsoft.com and had the same popup. Don’t know what is happening there - maybe a false positive?!

Infection:

URL:Mal

Firefox 17.0.1

Windows 7 SP1 x64.

Avast! Free AV 7.0.1474

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Hello
on what IP address does the URL translates to you?.

Milos

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I’m not that techy. How can I find that out for you?

5

Hello,
run cmd.exe
put “nslookup microsoft.com” an run it
post output – after “answer”.

Milos

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Hello Milos,

Just an update:

I tried again to go to microsoft.com and had no problem. I have received an update to the virus def’s since my last post, so the problem may be corrected.

64.4.11.37
65.55.58.201

I hope this helps.

ManFromOz

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Microsoft.com working good here no warning.

but Microsoft.co.uk gives warning.

ip 64.4.11.37

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Hello,
it should be fixed now, thanks for the IP.

Milos

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Confirm no alerts by avast on microsoft.co.uk which redirects to microsoft.com/en-gb.

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Confirmed. No more popup on microsoft.co.uk now.

Great work avast!

Thanks for a speedy solution. :slight_smile:

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FYI microsoft.co.uk has a USA server location. 8)