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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: andor2 on March 22, 2016, 01:31:05 PM
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Hi,
I'm running a Joomla site and use the JCE editor for backend editing.
There has been a history for older versions of the JCE component to be attacked by exploit attempts but newer versions should not have that weakness.
Still, Avast blocked that component as a Trojan (Other:Malware-gen [Trj]) today:
.../components/com_jce/editor/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_popup.js?a990757478edca862d0bc4f467dffdb9
and the developer says that Avast is the only one reporting this as an issue.
How should I deal with Avast blocking this url/script?
Thanks,
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Post VirusTotal link of that file and let see and then post the result here and if it is FP then report it to Avast! :)
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Post VirusTotal link of that file and let see and then post the result here and if it is FP then report it to Avast! :)
Submitting False Positive
https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php
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How should I deal with Avast blocking this url/script?
Post the URL here
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This is the Virus Total scan on the day the package was released
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/469bd62d2962a4619e507f7e792784f8294fb492039205d6b4c3fd78751111db/analysis/1457620372/
and the scan from today
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/469bd62d2962a4619e507f7e792784f8294fb492039205d6b4c3fd78751111db/analysis/
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This file - https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/blob/3.x/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_popup.js
and the file in question are identical in content (apart from the comments at the top), but the former does not trigger false positive.
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Some xxs vulnerable code: Results from scanning URL: -https://assets-cdn.github.com/assets/github-ab1086948a3be528001710080ba17e4975ddb36a9379ab7dddfdb0370647b7c1.js
Number of sources found: 281
Number of sinks found: 103
Consider: -http://www.domxssscanner.com/scan?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ftinymce%2Ftinymce%2Fblob%2F3.x%2Fjscripts%2Ftiny_mce%2Ftiny_mce_popup.js
This does not kick-up an Avast alert for me: https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/blob/3.x/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_popup.js
polonus
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thanks for information, this was a false positive and it will be fixed in next stream update.
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Thanks all for your input!
Apart from learning about the false positive, I also got some valuable information - at least for a newbie like me ;)