Avast blocking access to legitimate website?

[wsalvatore]

How can I find out why avast is blocking access to a specific website? It's a clean site, no scripting activex, etc. No scams, etc but I have to disable avast to to get to the site or it's blocked.

[Lisandro]

Can you post the edited link to it? hxxp:\\...
Generally, avast detection is accurate in these cases.
Isn't it an encrypted/obfuscated script or iframe?
Wasn't the site hacked?
Maybe you could contact its webmaster.

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[wsalvatore]

The site is sweetbinks.org. It's an animal rescue site. No iframes, scripts, etc. I know the webmaster and have tried to help them find out why the site is blocked, I have an entire copy of the site(it's not very large) and it's pretty basic html.
I have examined all pages and can find nothing out of the ordinary, no scripts, hidden code, etc. Since the site belongs to a charity, it's a seriouse matter for them to have it blocked. If I load the site on my own server, avast does not detect a thing when I go there so it appears it's the domain name itself that it does not like.

[DavidR]

I don't think it is avast blocking sweetbinks.org as the site is redirecting to rirabbits.org and it is that site which is being blocked, see image.

I have checked out the rirabbits.org http://vscan.urlvoid.com/analysis/dd52d4cab8d1768efdd776d6b76cf98b/aW5kZXg=/ and it isn't on any lists of malicious sites, so I will report this for further analysis.

[Nez Man]

Looks like this website has been hacked, as avast! reports that one of its pages, rirabbits.org/Adopt_Us/Application/application.html, has been infected with a HTML:REdirBA-inf Trojan Horse. (See screenshot below.)

[DavidR]

Strange I didn't get a web shield alert on the rirabbits.org site, mind you I was only on the home page and didn't go rummaging round it.

[DavidR]

I have just had a look at the source for that page, rirabbits.org/Adopt_Us/Application/application.html and didn't see anything obvious regarding any redirection.

[Charyb-0]

David, I had the webshield show redirect too. Then two more attempts network shield blocked.

hxxp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sXubz9YqOfAJ:sweetbinks.org/+sweetbinks.org&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us|>{gzip} [L] HTML:RedirBA-inf [Trj] (0)

[wsalvatore]

The form on that page redirects to hxxps://no7-control.superb.net:8443/webserver/webeasy/webeasy.php, but that is simply the form submittal utility from the webhost. Could that be what is being seen as a trojan?