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Avast blocking my home server, why? (RESOLVED)
« on: March 26, 2009, 07:40:55 PM »
Howdy folks!  I need some help, and I'm darned confused as to whats happening.  I set up a home server, on a local intranet, so that I could do web-development, and run a cheap blog from my home.  The server is an IBM eServer x232 running the latest release of CentOS (Redhat based) Linux.

During the course of setting up HTTPd and Wordpress, I could access the site from any browser! 

However, while setting up the rest of the server (ftp, vnc, etc) suddenly AVAST! started blocking my server when accessing it from the world wide web (IE, actually using the address http://Http://catgirls.dontexist.org, vs. using the internal static IP http://192.168.1.100), the error I receive is

"Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site catgirls.dontexist.org"

The logfile for network shield only says this --> "26.03.2009  12:36:55  Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site catgirls.dontexist.org/ [ C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe (5404)"

Why has avast suddenly started blocking my personal server, and how do I fix it? I'm 100% sure theres nothing malicious running on it!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!  :-\
« Last Edit: March 26, 2009, 11:43:43 PM by Orochium »

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2009, 07:47:22 PM »
Well, you're 100% sure that there's nothing wrong with it, but Avast says otherwise.

I can't view the site to find what's wrong, so the only thing that I can tell you to do, is to upload the source code of your site so that one of us can analyze what's wrong with it for you.
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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2009, 07:55:02 PM »
Well. That'd be moot. The installation is as follows:

Installed CentOS
Enabled CentOS's built in HTTPd
Installed Wordpress

Thats it, there's no custom code at all, and no custom tweaks or anything special done to the HTTP server.

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2009, 08:03:44 PM »
Ok, but don't you have posts on your site?  Do you not think that someone could have injected your mysql server with some sort of malicious code?

The default home page is throwing some malicious stuff.  There IS something on your server that shouldn't be.
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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2009, 08:12:10 PM »

Thats the thing, there's NOT.

File name:   http://catgirls.dontexist.org/wp-admin
Malware name: HTML:Script-inf
Malware type: Virus/Worm
VPS Version: 090325-0, 03/25/2009

This has gotta be a false positive, its done it from the minute that Wordpress was installed, BEFORE the SQL databases were even created, so they could NOT have injected anything into a database that didn't exist.

This is a relateively new version of Wordpress, and SQL.  I can delete the SQL database, recreate it, etc, I still get this wash of false positives.

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2009, 08:14:57 PM »
Hey man, I'm not trying to say that you're wrong, I'm just trying to help, ok?

I have my own home server, with wordpress on it (I've used every version for the past 5 updates at least) and avast hasn't said anything about mine yet.

Again, if you could post the source code, I could look at it and find out what script is setting avast off, and we can try to help you remedy it...
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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2009, 08:18:18 PM »
Hmm, hxxp://www.trafficsecrets.tv/john-reese-traffic-secrets/tag/html-script/ seems to have the same complaint, upgraded wordpress and started receiving the same warning.

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2009, 08:19:23 PM »
Hey man, I'm not trying to say that you're wrong, I'm just trying to help, ok?

I have my own home server, with wordpress on it (I've used every version for the past 5 updates at least) and avast hasn't said anything about mine yet.

Again, if you could post the source code, I could look at it and find out what script is setting avast off, and we can try to help you remedy it...

What chunk of script are you looking for, I can pull/post whatever once I get home from work tonight.

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2009, 08:24:37 PM »
I guess it could be a particular plugin or theme that you both use.

Well, there are problems with the main page, so open up the main page, right-click somewhere in the browser (the directions will vary depending on the browser) and click view source.  copy all of that code, and paste it in a post on here.  Then we'll be able to see what the problem is.

For some reason, I can't open your page. I don't know if my avast is blocking it, or if DNS isn't up to date or what.
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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2009, 08:27:30 PM »
Also, on the avast warning page, you can click the link towards the bottom of that message to "report false positive."
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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2009, 08:47:48 PM »
I already filed a false positive, but I'm still looking into potential causes.


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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2009, 08:50:21 PM »
I can't seem to post anything from the ../wp-admin/ applications php, which is what reports the HTML:Script-inf positive, its saying its over 10000 characters and won't let me code-paste it  ::)

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2009, 08:56:39 PM »
Can you attach it?  Click additional options on the bottom of your post window and paste it as a .txt file

EDIT - I worded that weird.  It's not "pasting".

What I meant was to save the source code in a text file, then upload it via the "attach:" function in the additional options of a post.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2009, 09:05:07 PM by scythe944 »
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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2009, 09:22:41 PM »

Alright, see attached (wp-admin.txt)

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Re: Avast blocking my home server, why?
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2009, 09:25:05 PM »
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