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avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« on: April 20, 2015, 03:16:54 AM »
And it's kind of scaring me. Usually it hardly ever finds anything, I only assume because my computer is good and clean. But right now it seems like it's finding something almost every other click. And it's not just because I'm on a bad site. This was happening right here on these forums, google.ca, Google+. It's just finding Malware everywhere. Is this anything I should be concerned about?


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Re: avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2015, 10:15:20 AM »
what does the message from avast say?




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Re: avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2015, 02:24:18 PM »
what does the message from avast say?
Same as always: "Threat has been detected!" And the actual notification itself says; "Avast WebShield has blocked a harmful webpage or file." They've all been random sites from Chrome so far and I haven't had any actual issues, it's just the frequency of notifications itself that are kind of.. I don't know.. Paranoying me. I don't like seeing so much Malware. I'm not used to this.

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Re: avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2015, 02:26:45 PM »
if it say URL:mal  you dont see malware but blacklisted URLs ....

« Last Edit: April 20, 2015, 02:29:34 PM by Pondus »

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Re: avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2015, 02:29:03 PM »
Still waiting for the log files  :-\

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Re: avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2015, 10:56:04 PM »
Still waiting for the log files  :-\
Well you could have been more clear with that. I don't even know where to find them. :/ I'll check before I post this though.

Alright, so I found the logs but I don't know which one(s?) you want.

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Re: avast! has been finding a lot of Malware lately...
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2015, 11:00:04 PM »
Still waiting for the log files  :-\
Well you could have been more clear with that. I don't even know where to find them. :/ I'll check before I post this though.

Alright, so I found the logs but I don't know which one(s?) you want.

Follow this guide: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

Open a new topic and attach ( Do not copy/paste ) logs for Malwarebytes ( MBAM ), Farbar Recovery Scan Tool ( FRST ), and aswMBR.exe here:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4.0

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