I’ve been trying to enter a furniture website here in the UK, but I keep receiving a message from Avast telling me there is a Trojan horse file attached to the shopping cart, thus I always have to abort the connection.
I’ve telephoned the company and they admit that someone had hacked into their computer recently. However, they think their computer is now clean and that my anti-virus software is over-reacting. They use Norton to protect their computer, which says it all. I’ve recently uninstalled Norton and switched to Avast Professional due to a number of issues experienced with Norton.
Any way, whenever I try to enter the furniture site, Avast continues to warn of a Trojan horse.
I’ve now contacted technical support at Avast and await their response, as I’m wondering if this is a ‘false positive’?
If anyone here is brave enough to visit the aforementioned site, I’d be interested to know if Avast sends you the same Trojan horse warning.
script outside main body of page - that is, google tracker script (see screenshot)
they need to talk to or change their webmaster (pardon my impudence)
in fact page is worse this, I’ve edited it for easier reading - there was a ton of blank space amongst this lot (very untidy)
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okay I edited again with Picture Manager so I think you have to download screenshot now
sorry I loaded Office 2003 today - I’ll see what I can do wit Faststone as page is good example of incorrect html[/s]
This script is in a two places in that page, the second about 50 blank lines below the closing HTML tag (and once again way out to the right of the screen to try and hide), a standards no, no and highly suspect.
Thanks everyone for confirming that the site is still infected. It’s a great pity as I need to buy some particular pieces of furniture for my own business (their prices are lower than average), but the owner doesn’t want to hear that he needs a professional to come in and tidy up his computer and website. Ah well, if he can’t be persuaded, I will have to shop elsewhere.
What baffles me is how on earth he’s getting any customers at all with that dire Trojan horse warning - or is Avast the only anti-virus software picking up the problem on the furniture site? When my son uninstalled Norton from my computer and installed Avast (because the computer was running at a snail’s pace), he discovered a number of viruses had slipped by Norton.
When my son uninstalled Norton from my computer and installed Avast (because the computer was running at a snail's pace), he discovered a number of viruses had slipped by Norton.
No security program have 100% detection.
Here you can see one that slipped past avast and Norton http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=58394.0
But avast is very god at detecting infected websites
Yes it is still active as the script tag is intact and would run, attempting to run a javascript file on googie-anaiytics.net, which avast also has on its malicious sites list, image1.
Perhaps you want to point them to this topic, though that really shouldn’t be your responsibility. You have already gone further than most would do by reporting it to them.
Unfortunately many AVs aren’t even looking for this problem (hacked sites, inserted scripts, etc.) much less detect them. So many visitors will be blissfully unaware that they are at risk by visiting the site. The script at googie-anaiytics.net could change at any time so the potential payload isn’t something that can be determined.
However, one piece of good news, it looks like the googie-anaiytics.net site has been taken down, so at the moment although the inserted script is active, the site at the end is down, again that is subject to change and shouldn’t be relied on.
Avast catches HTML:IFrame-DB[Trj] in the Shopping Cart of this website and fortunately it was caugfht by Avast! But I am already browsing with Sandboxie so that already reduces the chance for infection.
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