Xionix Malware blocked by Avast

Viruses and worms
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Avast AV (free edition) flagged up and blocked the url of Xionix.com as malware. The infection was named as url:mal. I have Xionix Driver Hound installed and have hitherto had no problems with it (apart from not always being accurate with recommended drivers). A boot scan with Avast AV was clean. Can anyone throw any more light on this? I do see that there have been a few complaints about their Regdefence product.

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VirusTotal URLscan - ParetoLogic say malware site
http://www.virustotal.com/url-scan/report.html?id=8beb3cccd53031e0fd0c5ff43ac51c42-1321374904

Listed at MalwareBlacklist… see attached screenshot, click to enlarge

and regdefense-setup-a.exe is detected with a 17/42 score on VT
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=32a605d08ab637332b9378f16a27619b781b93b3e462111c416fb20e80a70802-1321378845

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Avast isn’t the only thing to consider this site suspect, http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/xionix.com.

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Thanks for your help guys. Sorry if this is an obvious question, but should I now be uninstalling Xionix Driverhound?

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If you have it installed and avast hasn’t alerted on it then it would seem unnecessary, but that choice would be yours.

However I wouldn’t have thought that something like driverhound (which presumable hunts out new drivers), would be required on a regular basis, so do you need it. If you do need a driver there are other most likely other tools.