Avast Free detecting Juno webmail page as infected

[Deputy276]

Today Avast Free started detecting the Juno webmail page as infected and refused me access. I deleted all the web history and it still detects a virus on there. Scan produced nothing. I disabled Avast and was able to acces e-mail just fine. A scan with Malwarebytes showed nothing. What's going on?

[romigj]

I've got the same thing going on. It was fine at 7 pm Central time 3/10/11. As of 6 AM 3/11/11 I can't access email unless I disable Avast.

I use Outlook, and noticed nothing new had come in, which seemed odd. When I tried to access directly through Webmail, it the Trojan horse issue showed up.

It is doing the same for my email through my website.
Anyone have any ideas?

[essexboy]

Could be the web page is infected do you have a link for it

OK just checked webmaila.juno.com was blocked due to malware with Avast network shield

[jsh1]

I'm having the same problem.  AVAST says it is detecting a TROJAN at the log-in page for JUNO.com web-mail.  Is JUNO really infected or is this a bug with AVAST?

jsh

[Gopher John]

I'm also getting the alert from Avast when I visit the site.  However, VirusTotal doesn't find anything.

http://www.virustotal.com/url-scan/report.html?id=9b23700f9d1123dc08a8a87db8779975-1299865058

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=ab6b53dc62b48cd01cf700e214c1df3a9b851fb0648ec1842f88414408cd6a88-1299868669

Clicking on the link in the Avast alert states....

Yes, that was close, but relax... avast! just saved a crash!

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[jomackenzie]

As of this afternoon, (GMT+1, France) I have been having a similar problem, but it is not saying TROJAN, it is saying URL/MAL. I have another computer not running Avast & juno.com is working fine. I've wasted half the day trying to figure this out, & I can't submit an email to Avast because it's blocking juno. HELP!!!Now I have to figure out how to disable Avast.  Shit, I just want to have my dinner & read my book!

[YoKenny]

Several people reporting this:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=73609.0

[jomackenzie]

How do I disable Avasti? Do I have to delete it? 

[jomackenzie]

Oh good, I'm not as stupid as I thought I was.  I disabled the mail shield & hey presto! Now I can have my dinner.

[MAG]

Oh good, I'm not as stupid as I thought I was.  I disabled the mail shield & hey presto! Now I can have my dinner.

I gather the problem was fixed in the latest avast definition update.

I think you should try restoring mail shield (after you've updated) - other users reported it was actually web shield and network shield causing the problem.

[Deputy276]

Yep...Avast just sent me a notice about the signatures being updated. I reactivated Avast and no more message about Juno. Kinda reminds me of that bug we had a while back where every executeable was being identified as infected by Avast. I ended up switching to Avira after that. At least Avast is quick with the fix now. I will stay with it   

Thanks to Avast techies for fixing the problem.

[jpChris]

Hi all,

Just to confirm: Update 110311-0 was wonky and resulted in the Juno error.

The good folks at Avast were very quick to fix this and released Update 110311-1 just a little while ago and it cleared up the problem.

As an aside, I called Juno and they said they'd had a lot of calls about this and they were checking on their end. I called back and told them that it was an Avast thingy (I believe that's the technical term for it  ) and to tell their customers to update to v.110311-1.

Thanks, Avast, for fixing this so quickly.

[YoKenny]

Thanks, Avast, for fixing this so quickly.

avast! does fix things quickly.