Why does Avast suddenly hate SF?

[waddler8 10]

Problem is reported as -

 

webshield has blocked a harmful webpage or file.

MALWARE BLOCKED

Object: http//www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=124|>{gzip}

Infection: HTML: |frame-inf

The Items for sale forum.

 

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=f2c0145b1763a30eaf0bc722ed0866adbc8740e7c814a13174f761b9368a1b03-1300741467

 

(GDATA uses the Avast! engine.)

 

False positive.

[waddler8 10]

It does make me wonder.... An antivirus warns of a potential threat and everyone looks to circumvent it's protection, disabling it, turning off Shields & even uninstalling it, without knowing if the threat was for real or if it is a false postitive.

[melthebell 863]

It does make me wonder.... An antivirus warns of a potential threat and everyone looks to circumvent it's protection, disabling it, turning off Shields & even uninstalling it, without knowing if the threat was for real or if it is a false postitive.

 

the thing is.............false positive or not, until you KNOW what it is there was nothing we could do, i couldnt read this thread until disabling the shields, let alone work out how to fix it, anyway with my fix its an exclusion for the url rather than a full web shield disabled

[RJK3 10]

It does make me wonder.... An antivirus warns of a potential threat and everyone looks to circumvent it's protection, disabling it, turning off Shields & even uninstalling it, without knowing if the threat was for real or if it is a false postitive.

 

I see you're still posting here

 

Good to see others are using virustotal too, but...

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7428599&postcount=19

[discodown 11]

HOW TO SORT IT

 

in avast go to

 

real time shields

web shield

expert settings

exclusions

enter http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk

 

then you can keep ALL shields running including web, worked for me anyway

Worked for me! Nice one brother!

[melthebell 863]

Worked for me! Nice one brother!

nice one to you for giving me a hint..........in just a thread title for someplace to start looking for a problem

[megalithic 10]

It does make me wonder.... An antivirus warns of a potential threat and everyone looks to circumvent it's protection, disabling it, turning off Shields & even uninstalling it, without knowing if the threat was for real or if it is a false postitive.

 

I didn't.

[melthebell 863]

I didn't.

 

how did you post in this thread then? i could only view things on the outskirts of the forum, none of the actual forumy stuff

[megalithic 10]

how did you post in this thread then? i could only view things on the outskirts of the forum, none of the actual forumy stuff

 

This pc i'm posting from is running MSE, it's the lappy that has Avast.

[waddler8 10]

I see you're still posting here

 

Good to see others are using virustotal too, but...

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7428599&postcount=19

There's a slight difference. Mine was the specific URL as detected by Avast in Megalithic's post. The downloaded files are different if you look.

[terrorfirma 10]

Worked for me! Nice one brother!

 

Didn't for me I'm afraid. I had to enter http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/* to get mine to work

[terrorfirma 10]

Spybot is still useful for its browser and hosts immunisations; most don't bother with the scanner (although it's recently been updated and is significantly faster). Malwarebytes won't help prevent a web-based infection, unless you are using the realtime guard from it.

 

You need to add the exclusion correctly:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/* and it's fine

 

Sorry, I didn't go back far enough