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Avast showing it has blocked trojan on World of Webcams
« on: August 04, 2011, 10:47:21 PM »
Avast has been showing it has  blocked a trojan when loading 'World of Webcams' 
http://ww.com/index.htm)
for the past 24 hours - I have used this site for years with no problems

The website owner has issued this statement

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04/Aug/2011 - Avast BUG. The Avast virus scanner contains a bug which causes it to falsely report ww.com as harboring a trojan. Please switch to a better virus scanner *or* mail Avast tech support about this, if enough people report this bogus warning with them they'll probably do something about it. stage1.php detects which plug-ins you've got installed to tailor the website to the display capabilities of your browser, that's perfectly OK and not a sign of a 'trojan' being installed on our server.

I'm not sure I want a 'better' Anti virus as I like Avast - the trojan reported is JS:Downloader-AUX am I safe to assume this is a false positive?

Thanks

Paul

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Re: Avast showing it has blocked trojan on World of Webcams
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2011, 11:12:40 PM »
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I'm not sure I want a 'better' Anti virus as I like Avast - the trojan reported is JS:Downloader-AUX am I safe to assume this is a false positive?
js:Downloader-AUX [Trj] - http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=82597.0


have you updated to 110804-1  ? if not do a manuall update and try again

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Re: Avast showing it has blocked trojan on World of Webcams
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2011, 11:13:23 PM »
I can remember another JS:Downloader-AUX detection today, not on this site and that was an FP, so I don't know if that is the same. The other FP was meant to be corrected in virus definitions (VPS) version 110804-1.

Ensure that you have the latest VPS version and check again, I have just visited the link and no alert.
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Re: Avast showing it has blocked trojan on World of Webcams
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2011, 11:33:16 PM »
Updates to 110804-1 manually (last auto update today 3 hours ago) as advised and all OK now

Thanks for the very fast replies and for solving my problem  8)

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Re: Avast showing it has blocked trojan on World of Webcams
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2011, 11:43:02 PM »
your welcome


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