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Offline Remo_253

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False Positive(?) on OpenDNS (www.website-unavailable.com)
« on: January 12, 2014, 03:29:38 AM »
I just started getting warnings about this address. A DNS query resolves it to OpenDNS. Back on August 2013 there was an issue with that address triggering a false positive (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=98238.0) that was resolved. The issue has apparently returned. I've reported it to Avast via their contact form.

Disclaimer: It is possible the site has been compromised so I do not know for certain it's a FP although that seems likely given the previous issue.

gisot

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Re: False Positive(?) on OpenDNS (www.website-unavailable.com)
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2014, 04:47:11 AM »
Based on the updated scan from URLVoid (http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/website-unavailable.com/), Sucuri SiteCheck (http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.website-unavailable.com and VirusTotal (https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/e5847fcbd93d08720a8461b9ba5ffdbbe082c7fe741793cb5ee8e7e3f221ba75/analysis/1389498356/) ... this should be a FP. Fastest way to solve it, would be to exclude the link in Avast (Settings-Antivirus-Exclusions-Urls). I'm using OpenDNS too, so I do get the same detection.

AdrianH

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Re: False Positive(?) on OpenDNS (www.website-unavailable.com)
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2014, 12:09:07 PM »
Same at mail.com .

Also see here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=144591.0 

gisot

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Re: False Positive(?) on OpenDNS (www.website-unavailable.com)
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2014, 05:20:57 PM »
Same at mail.com .

Also see here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=144591.0

AdrianH, that's the same FP detection of OpenDNS site http://www.website-unavailable.com/ .. just add it into Urls exclusion list and you won't see any detections on any other page. (Avast-Settings-Antivirus-Exclusions-Urls).

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Re: False Positive(?) on OpenDNS (www.website-unavailable.com)
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2014, 09:04:08 PM »
It seems to have been fixed, as there are no more annoying popups for the opendns redirect page being blocked.

gisot

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Re: False Positive(?) on OpenDNS (www.website-unavailable.com)
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2014, 09:26:21 PM »
It seems to have been fixed, as there are no more annoying popups for the opendns redirect page being blocked.

True, it's fixed, thanks Avast :)