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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: mdlance0000 on March 04, 2012, 07:37:14 PM

Title: keep getting "url mal" on specific site
Post by: mdlance0000 on March 04, 2012, 07:37:14 PM

I just recently upgraded to 7.01.1407. There is a web site that i often visit that i now can not access
see below

Infection Details
URL: "hxtp://www.barplan.com/"
Process: "C:\ProgramFiles\InternetExplorer\iexplore.exe"
Infection: "URL:Mal"

I had no problems before accessing this site using version 6
I believe this may be a false positive how do i alleviate this problem
Have ran the site thru virus total,url void and norton safe web and all scans show the site to be claer of any malware. Are you able to help?

thanks in advance

Title: Re: keep getting "url mal" on specific site
Post by: !Donovan on March 04, 2012, 07:38:52 PM

Hi mdlance0000,

First, please change http:// to hXtp:// to avoid accidental clicks.

Title: Re: keep getting "url mal" on specific site
Post by: !Donovan on March 04, 2012, 07:45:19 PM

http://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/show/f9bcdc04fb70ecc7c2b07ee7304191db-1330886419
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/http://www.barplan.com/
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=27823


You can report a false positive here:
http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?loadStyles

Title: Re: keep getting "url mal" on specific site
Post by: mdlance0000 on March 06, 2012, 02:17:58 PM

avast took care of problem. It did end up being a false positive, there response was great and was fixed with last upgrade

thanks!!

Title: Re: keep getting "url mal" on specific site
Post by: !Donovan on March 07, 2012, 11:03:52 PM

No problem.

Glad I could help. :)

Feel free to come back to the forums anytime!

Title: Re: keep getting "url mal" on specific site
Post by: polonus on March 07, 2012, 11:23:38 PM

@iDonovan,

Thanks that you checked on this, well done.  :)
Generally speaking it is mportant to keep the listing as actual as we can get it.
Malware take down time can vary. It can be taken down next day, within a couple of hours even, or stay on there so long to get the status "long overdue".
Those that are responsible for the avast blocking should check the migration data & malware status changes from day to day.
But other av blocklists perform a lot worse.
Also it is important is to watch for urlQuery alerts (specific requests).
Well  generally speaking we should always give avast feed-back,  so they can stay up to date,

@mdlance0000
Thanks for reporting,  :)

polonus