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deba

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Search results cause malicious site notice
« on: May 11, 2012, 03:56:30 AM »
This has happened on Google and Yahoo. I did a search, and got a popup that I had entered a malicious site. WTH?
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Re: Search results cause malicious site notice
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2012, 05:38:12 AM »
we need to see a screenshot of the avast warning......so if you could attach one?
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Re: Search results cause malicious site notice
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2012, 11:06:35 PM »
When avast! alerts, it does not necessarily mean that you have entered a malicious site. Cross-scripting is popular these days. You could visit a site that was hacked and contains javascript to a malicious domain, which avast would block, thus an alert is shown.


Can you provide an image of the alert?
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