When I was using Hotmail, Avast reported, that "suspicious URL blocked" and "web shield has blocked the activity of a malicious site". The blocked virus was called "URL:Mal". Is this something serious or a false positive? Here's a screenshot about that. Please note, that my translations might not be 100% correct, because I'm using the Finnish version of Avast.
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I have repeatedly received the same Avast pop up with audio: "Threat has been detected" when navigating in Hotmail today. I have not been clicking links. The warning comes up when I go tot he upper right of Hotmail and use the pulldown to switch accounts. This is something I have done every day for years in Hotmail, with Avast installed.
It appears to be a false positive. I did a quick scan with Avast and showed no infections. My Avast stats show nothing blocked.
I use Chrome as my main browser.
This may be related to being "logged in" to MSN Messenger while in the Hotmail session. I don't use Messenger and noticed that I was logged into the service. When I logged out I didn't get the Avast warning. I logged back in and got the Avast warning again when changing accounts within Hotmail.
I can't get a screenshot of my Avast pop up, but the Kohde/Object: is very similar to EaglGhost's up through "KpU8" after that the code changes each time. The process is Chrome, rather than Firefox.
The URL for Hotmail while logged in is:
hXXp://sn110w.snt110.mail.live.com/default.aspx?rru=inbox&wa=wsignin1.0