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Avast FP is hitting my website business
« on: June 08, 2015, 01:39:28 PM »
Hi Avast Team,

A false positive has been blocking my website for a long time. I have reported this  months ago on avast 2015 "Report as False positive". I am losing huge traffic because of this. Total scan shows 0/63. Google shows clean. Please rectify. Here is the total virus scan link

https://www.virustotal.com/uk/url/404cf3150516dbc8c7d4e2dc9fcda8600fd362ea953985f089fc78dbc2a5c9f7/analysis/1433763077/


The hosting team has scanned the server loads of time and found nothing.
« Last Edit: June 08, 2015, 02:14:12 PM by footman.88 »

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2015, 03:03:23 PM »
Hi,
Which domain on that IP is it exactly?

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2015, 11:33:01 PM »
Ive got many Domains


coloradospringsroofing.info
sleepsciencemattress.net
transformationarena.org


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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2015, 10:06:51 AM »
This is the end of coloradospringsroofing.info: (I made the URLs non clickable)

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<iframe src="http://www.sleepsciencemattress\.net" style="width:1px; height:1px;"></iframe>
<iframe src="http://coloradospringsroofing\.info/adsloader1.html" style="width:1px; height:1px;"> </iframe>

<iframe src=" http://www.amazon\.com/?tag=wwwcolorado0a-20" width="1" height="1"></iframe>

</body>
</html>
<p style='display:none'>5d90ea4a168e0bc816c8baf2f47967f4aa4d9f94</p>

I believe it will be the same for other domains on that IP...

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2015, 06:11:45 PM »
Thanks. but those iframes are my website urls. Why is it detected as Malware?

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2015, 06:13:13 PM »
Exactly. You have iframes leading to malicious/spammy sites on your website. This means your website is infected.

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2015, 06:19:09 PM »
Why do you want those url's to be opened without the user noticing it....
That is malicious practice.

It is also falsely generating visitor statistics.

Also are IFrames obsolete/depricated:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2015, 06:42:21 PM »
Thanks I have removed them. I only wanted to increase traffic count. I didn't know this will be reported as malware. When will this be back to normal ?

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« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2015, 07:05:24 PM »
I don't think people do want to visit your websites.
At every click 2 pop-up's  :(

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2015, 07:37:06 PM »
Hi Eddy,

I provide a free Website Link service on my PR websites. This usually costs $2 - $299 (Magenet and Backlinks dot com)per month but I offer it free. So my popunders and popups views are only way to pay for my hosting and save a little. Even with this users flock to post their link; atleast 150-300 posts everyday.

I understand the iframe (to increase my visitor count) was detected as malware. I have removed them. Now how do I get the next update to clear this website from Avast Malware reports?

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2015, 07:43:44 PM »
Have patience.

avast will soon have another look at the websites and if everything is fine, they will allow them again.

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Re: Avast FP is hitting my website business
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2015, 08:59:14 PM »
Hi footman.88,
I am unblocking your domains now. Keep in mind though, that they will be very easily blocked again if you use those tactics, and then we will not be so quick to unblock them.
...my popunders and popups views are only way to pay for my hosting...
This is a very dangerous thought, and I shudder just by thinking of it. I hope you can find a better system of monetization - one without exploiting your users - or start working to pay for hosting, as we mortals do.
Honza