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Consumer Products => Avast Mac Security => Topic started by: evesrequiem on August 03, 2013, 05:47:45 AM

Title: AVAST detects infection from a website I am not on
Post by: evesrequiem on August 03, 2013, 05:47:45 AM
A few days ago I came across a website and then avast! warned me that its web shield had detected a threat from that website (screenshot of avast! pop-up attached). Now the same "avast! Infection detected" message would pop up randomly three times in one instance when I'm on the Internet even though I didn't open that website at all. This happens every day at multiple moments. I've done a full scan of my laptop various times, but I've only come up with warnings (screenshot of full scan results attached).

What can I do to fix my situation? Thank you for any suggestions!

Infection: HTML:Script-inf
Title: Re: AVAST detects infection from a website I am not on
Post by: tumic on August 06, 2013, 11:17:57 AM
Most probably the browser is updating it's cache and loads the page. Try to clean the browser cache/history.
Title: Re: AVAST detects infection from a website that is clean
Post by: legov87 on August 06, 2013, 03:41:19 PM
Hello,

I went to xeofix.com and avast blocked it due to trojan.
Checked with site owners and they checked out clean:
WHAT IS THIS?
Commercial and support site for xeobox sat receivers and avast is blocking it! That is not acceptable for an antivirus software nor is it a cache (flippant) problem: it is avast engine on OS X 10.8.3 and Safari that is at fault!!

Please if any developer at avast reads this: do something about it since it harms users and owners of websites!!
Title: Re: AVAST detects infection from a website I am not on
Post by: evesrequiem on August 06, 2013, 06:41:00 PM
Most probably the browser is updating it's cache and loads the page. Try to clean the browser cache/history.

Hi tumic,

Thanks for your suggestion! I always clean my browser cache/history before closing my Safari browser though so that doesn't seem to be the solution. What user legov87 said does seem to match up...my macbook is OS X 10.8.3, and I use Safari.

Title: Re: AVAST detects infection from a website I am not on
Post by: Secondmineboy on August 15, 2013, 05:14:01 PM
Avast is blocking an JS:Clickjack-A (Trj) on xeofix.com/I{gzip}.

Sucuri: Infected with known Java Malware.  http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.xeofix.com
Quettra: (Potentially suspicious): http://www.quttera.com/detailed_report/xeofix.com
Zulu:http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/a62db3e20e1ba5863ff66b565ebefad9-1376579341
Zulu Xeobox.com: http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/64c73e05445f9fc93896209d8130e485-1376579359
Title: Re: AVAST detects infection from a website I am not on
Post by: Samhill on August 17, 2013, 05:00:48 PM
There could be an image linked to the site that you were on and that is what triggered the alert.
Title: Re: AVAST detects infection from a website that is clean
Post by: specimen9999 on August 22, 2013, 02:18:09 PM
Hello,

I went to xeofix.com and avast blocked it due to trojan.
Checked with site owners and they checked out clean:
WHAT IS THIS?
Commercial and support site for xeobox sat receivers and avast is blocking it! That is not acceptable for an antivirus software nor is it a cache (flippant) problem: it is avast engine on OS X 10.8.3 and Safari that is at fault!!

Please if any developer at avast reads this: do something about it since it harms users and owners of websites!!

The site can be infected without the owners having knowledge of it.