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Alan Baxter

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Avast! paid for itself today
« on: October 24, 2009, 05:29:54 PM »
Hooray!  The Network Shield blocked a link to a malicious site in a hidden iframe.  My first true positive since I first installed Avast.  (Has it really been only 18 months since I switched from AVG?)  The Wordpress blog at hxxp://ilias.ca/blog has been hacked with a hidden iframe containing a link to a malicious site.  I've broken the link since you shouldn't follow it.  I've left warnings in the comments on a couple of the blog entries and emailed the owner, Chris Ilias.
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Re: Avast! paid for itself today
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2009, 05:41:25 PM »
Now you know for certain the function works ;D
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Re: Avast! paid for itself today
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2009, 05:44:48 PM »
just gave it a try for fun  ;D ..it's blocked by the web shield already in avast 5... you wouldn't believe it but I got about 50 alerts like the one on the screen shot, like the connection was trying to reactivate everytime it was aborted by the web shield ...until I cleared the cache and cookies.
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Alan Baxter

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Re: Avast! paid for itself today
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2009, 06:21:23 PM »
Quote from: DavidR on October 24, 2009, 05:41:25 PM
Now you know for certain the function works ;D

Ha, ha.  Those darn Wordpress blogs!  I should be more careful where I go, eh?
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