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False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« on: April 07, 2009, 04:51:48 PM »
Since Yesterday, Opening every site hosted by xoomer.virgilio.it I (and many other people from Italy) receive a virus information on the bottom of the page and I cannot see the contents.

The message is:
 
'Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site xoomer.virgilio.it/ [ C:\Programmi\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe ( 3732 ) ]'

I already sent a message to Virgilio's Staff but they answered me that there's no problem in xoomer.virgilio.it and that I have to change Avast settings to allow access to the site...
Can anyone help me?

I use AVAST HOME EDITION 4.8-1335

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Re: False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 05:13:14 PM »
Maybe the site was hacked... generally, avast detection is quite accurate for that.
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Re: False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 05:16:10 PM »
Well avast isn't the only one that doesn't like xoomer.virgilio.it, so it looks like only some sub domains of virgilio.it that WOT doesn't like.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/xoomer.virgilio.it
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Re: False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 05:25:35 PM »
We have found some rogue software distributed from this server, but blocking it is not a good way - this is false positive and will be fixed in next vps update.

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Re: False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 05:29:27 PM »
Interestingly the main domain isn't blocked only the xoomer sub domain.
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Re: False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2009, 08:39:11 PM »
After last update it works, thank you  :) :) :)

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Re: False positive hxxp://xoomer.virgilio.it?
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2009, 08:59:39 PM »
Thanks for the feedback, welcome to the forums.
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