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bluedigdug

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False alert on website? (was: Weird warnings)
« on: March 06, 2014, 09:04:57 AM »
In IE11 and FF27.0.1, every time I go visit the family history site: https://familysearch.org, Avast! free antivirus pops up the following warnings (below).  IE and FF give different warnings.  But when I check online scanning sites, they say the website is fine.

No Malware Detected by External Scan : http://sitecheck2.sucuri.net/results/familysearch.org
Detection ratio: 0 / 52 : https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/4a894fde07b8f1ec556b33dcfdc544cd1cf3bee8a10ce0effcf0fe0345d965c8/analysis/

Avast! is up to date:
virus definitions: 140305-0 (3/5/2014 9:23:23am)
program: 2014.9.0.2013

Any ideas? 

FF:


IE:
« Last Edit: March 06, 2014, 09:30:00 AM by bluedigdug »

Offline Pondus

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Re: False alert on website? (was: Weird warnings)
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2014, 09:39:56 AM »
Your second pic give a diffrent url then the one you try to access?

See the logs to assist in cleaning malware guide at top in this forum section
Follow instructions, attach Malwarebytes and OTL logs


bluedigdug

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Re: False alert on website? (was: Weird warnings)
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2014, 09:53:36 AM »
Your second pic give a diffrent url then the one you try to access?

See the logs to assist in cleaning malware guide at top in this forum section
Follow instructions, attach Malwarebytes and OTL logs

I know. It is weird. That's what avast! says when I just use IE.

So are you saying that you trust the external web scans and we need to look at my box for infection?  I have run SpyBot scans and avast scans and everything comes back clean.  I am currently downloading Bitdefender to see if it can find anything.  I will also get those files for you.

 

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Re: False alert on website? (was: Weird warnings)
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2014, 12:01:15 PM »
Hi,

Sybot search & Destroy is outdated. You are btter off with MBAM. Second, OTL will help us find the root of the issue.
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bluedigdug

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Re: False alert on website? (was: Weird warnings)
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2014, 08:08:24 AM »
It looks like I had Malware.Trace on my computer (see attachment) which MBAM removed easily.  I rebooted as instructed and the behaviors mentioned above went away.  MBAM doesn't find anything now.

I also had Adware.InstallBrain in a file being downloaded from the Internet but it looks like it was stopped mid-download and blocked.

After some reading on the internet, I think I will continue to run Avast! free edition + MBAM free version and quick scan monthly with MBAM.

Thanks for all of your help.
« Last Edit: March 07, 2014, 08:10:35 AM by bluedigdug »

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Re: False alert on website? (was: Weird warnings)
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2014, 09:08:24 AM »
i recomend attaching OTL log so a malware expert can look for leftover files that need removal....



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After some reading on the internet, I think I will continue to run Avast! free edition + MBAM free version and quick scan monthly with MBAM.
yepp....also recomended if you use removable drives  free MCShield  www.mcshield.net


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