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MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« on: November 06, 2010, 02:50:18 PM »
I believe there is a false positive from AVAST Network Shield for www.newton.co.uk

I have checked the url through urlvoid, virustotal, google and many other services and they all report a clean site.

As the webmaster of this site, I am keen to know why this site has been attributed as a malicious url (for if there are reasons I will need to resolve them), and if it is confirmed as a false positive then I would like to know how this url can be removed (quickly!)

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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2010, 05:05:33 PM »
Send an email to virus (at) avast (dot) com with Possible False Positive - Network Shield in the Subject and the Info (URLVoid, etc.) in the Body of the email including the URL.

Edit: Posting the URLVoid results link http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/newton.co.uk

I have also sent an email report.
« Last Edit: November 06, 2010, 05:12:51 PM by DavidR »
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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2010, 06:00:54 PM »
Thank you for the quick response.

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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2010, 07:02:07 PM »
No problem, glad I could help.

Hopefully it will be quickly investigated and corrected.

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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2010, 07:43:20 PM »
Hello,
it is a false positive.
It will be fixed in next VPS
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Jan Sirmer
« Last Edit: November 06, 2010, 07:54:59 PM by Sirmer »

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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2010, 08:11:37 PM »
Thanks for the prompt action Jan.
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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2010, 02:45:52 PM »
Thanks again Jan and David. Very quick resolution.

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Re: MAL:URL Fasle Positive? for website newton.co.uk
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2010, 02:51:54 PM »
You're welcome.
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