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 Jan 24 2008, 09:34 PM
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 The Bookworm  Group: Moderator Posts: 6,390 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150  |
Has anyone else experienced this? Is something on the website, or has my AV gone paranoid? Orange Blossom 
-------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
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Jan 25 2008, 03:07 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 23-December 07 From: Wanganui, Aotearoa NZ Member No.: 178,459 |
I've got avast latest update and it isnt doing anything strange at BC
 BC doesn't use VBS anywhere on the site does it? This post has been edited by Tomo2: Jan 25 2008, 03:09 AM -------------------- L&P, World Famous in New Zealand since ages ago!  Avast! Antivirus : Spybot S&D : Trend Micro Housecall : Hosts file : HiJack This Don't be too open minded - your brains will fall out |
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Jan 25 2008, 04:09 AM
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 The BSG Malware Fighter Group: HJT Team Coach Posts: 5,363 Joined: 20-April 06 From: Hamburg Member No.: 64,788 |
this is a false positive. Many AV products use file names / paths for their virus signatures and if you visit the hijackthis forum and look at logs, it could happen that your AV thinks you are infected with a file shown in the logs
-------------------- - "How did I get infected?" - "Safe-hex" - Member of UNITE - - The HJT forum is very busy. If I've not posted back within 24 hrs., send a PM with your topic link. Thank you. - HELP REQUESTS VIA THE PM SYSTEM WILL BE IGNORED. The Forums are there for a reason! Thanks-  |
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Jan 25 2008, 05:15 AM
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 Distinguished Member Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 25-October 07 From: Sydney, AUSTRALIA :] Member No.: 165,216 |
I'm an Avast user and I don't have this problem. And I have all my updates installed.
-------------------- "People die of disease and accident. Death comes suddenly and there is no notion of good or bad. It leaves, not a dramatic feeling but great emptiness. When you lose someone you loved very much you feel this big empty space and think, 'If I had known this was coming I would have done things differently.' These are the feelings I wanted to arouse in the players with Aerith's death relatively early in the game. Feelings of reality and not Hollywood." - Yoshinori Kitase |
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Jan 25 2008, 08:18 AM
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 Distinguished Member Group: BC Advisor Posts: 738 Joined: 28-January 06 From: Australia Member No.: 52,817 |
Another Avast user not getting any alerts.
-------------------- Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |
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Jan 25 2008, 08:27 AM
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 Malware hunter Group: HJT Team Posts: 1,471 Joined: 7-February 06 From: Greece loutraki 6 km from korinth canal Member No.: 54,061 |
All updates, no problem.
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Jan 25 2008, 09:26 AM
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 Who is running the store? Group: Members Posts: 1,944 Joined: 26-November 05 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 42,052 |
Orange Blossom -
I'd suggest downloading the current version of Avast!, uninstalling the one you have (even if it is the same version), and then installing the current version and let it update itself. Then see if you still are having the problem. --------------------  I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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Jan 25 2008, 09:52 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 4,104 Joined: 7-January 07 From: UK Member No.: 105,123 |
I'm using Avast on another system and its not getting any alerts. Have you set the settings in the program to high?
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Jan 25 2008, 11:02 AM
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The Bookworm Group: Moderator Posts: 6,390 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
Thanks to all the replies. Whatever was going on seems to have sorted itself out. It hasn't done it this morning.
It was really strange; last night I couldn't even call up the forum index page, this page, the forum games page, and finally ANY BC page without the AV going off. I checked my AV settings, and they were what they always were, set to normal. Then it decided to do the same thing, exact same infection alert, when I was navigating to the login page for E-bay, which it also hadn't done before. I cleared my cache, history etc. to see if that would solve the problem - no dice. Still doing it. I finally decided to run a complete scan, while disconnected from the internet, to see what would happen. The AV flagged three files on my desktop with the exact same infection alert - files that I've had on the computer for close to a year, haven't altered, hadn't opened for several months and which Avast never flagged before last night. They were, however, saved web-pages using Firefox. I created a new folder for the files in question, and transferred all the files, flagged and unflagged, from the old folder to the new one. I just now scanned that folder and no alerts. Note: the three flagged files were the only saved web pages. All the others were other file types. Conclusion: Avast was possessed last night and decided it didn't like any Firefox pages. Couldn't tell you about IE though because I didn't open that browser. Orange Blossom -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ESET NOD32, AVG Anti-spyware Free, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, Spybot 1.5, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Comodo BOClean 4.27, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
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Jan 25 2008, 11:19 AM
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 Bleepin' Conundrum Group: Global Moderator Posts: 10,633 Joined: 26-April 04 From: 65 miles due East of the "Logic Free Zone", in Md, USA Member No.: 235 |
It's possible that those old Ff pages that you saved contained "something" that the newer definitions of the AV just alerted on? IDK. Sure appears to be false alerts.
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Jan 25 2008, 09:55 PM
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Distinguished Member Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 25-October 07 From: Sydney, AUSTRALIA :] Member No.: 165,216 |
I find that unusual because even with my settings on high (i like the best possible protection
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-------------------- "People die of disease and accident. Death comes suddenly and there is no notion of good or bad. It leaves, not a dramatic feeling but great emptiness. When you lose someone you loved very much you feel this big empty space and think, 'If I had known this was coming I would have done things differently.' These are the feelings I wanted to arouse in the players with Aerith's death relatively early in the game. Feelings of reality and not Hollywood." - Yoshinori Kitase |
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