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Offline harman123

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false alarm?
« on: December 27, 2009, 02:26:50 PM »
Is this false positive? Currently I'm getting HTML:Script-inf on this particular page.

hxxp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357544,00.asp

edit: Every single link in pcmag site trigger malware alert.
 
« Last Edit: December 27, 2009, 02:38:24 PM by harman123 »

Offline Pondus

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Re: false alarm?
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2009, 02:44:46 PM »
probably an FP and probably related to this http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52692.0

YoKenny

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Re: false alarm?
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2009, 02:46:46 PM »
Pondus beat me. 

Looks like a new False Positive.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52696.0
« Last Edit: December 27, 2009, 02:50:28 PM by YoKenny »

F5

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Re: false alarm?
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2009, 02:53:50 PM »
Me too. [HTML:Script-inf]
hxxp://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/
hxxp://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
hxxp://www.veoh.com/

spg SCOTT

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Re: false alarm?
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2009, 03:04:54 PM »
The OP...

There is a ad.yieldmanager script tag, that is causeing avast! to alert,

ad.yieldmanager has been added to the network shield recently, due to the fact that it is considered malicious:
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/ad.yieldmanager.com
http://hosts-file.net/?s=ad.yieldmanager.com&x=24&y=10

@F5,

Probably the same thing
Ultimate guitar: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52698.0



Happens to be FP, which will be fixed.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52692.msg446420#msg446420
Hello guys,

this false positive will be corrected in new vps update in about 30 minutes. We are blocking ads from yieldmanager.com (by mistake because they were in our stats as distributor of Fake Antivirus websites).

Thank you for information you have provided.
Regards
« Last Edit: December 27, 2009, 03:09:44 PM by spg SCOTT »