False Positive: Zynga Toolbar

[resa1983]

Having an issue with my toolbar.  I load my browser, and the Zynga toolbar goes to connect, and avast blocks it.

Object: http://toolbar.zynga.com/game_switcher/component.php
Infection:URL Mal
Action Blocked
Process: firefox

I've never had a problem before today's update, and this page is required to get the toolbar working at all.

The toolbar is NOT malware, and avast needs to unflag this.

[Lisandro]

The toolbar could be ok, but is the website ok also?
Generally, avast detection is right and sites are very frequently get infected.

[DavidR]

It isn't the toolbar that is actually being flagged/blocked but the zynga.com domain being blocked by the network shield.

This normally happens if the domain has been hacked or has become a distribution point for malware (usually as a result of hacking the site). If there are a high number of alerts with the web shield, then that information would be collated and result in the domain being added to the malicious sites list for the network shield.

I don't know why the domain has been added to the network shield list as I'm only an avast user like yourself.

Also see this topic, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=63152.0.