Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet

   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet
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#21  
URL
hxxp://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/|{gzip}

Infection
HTML:Script-inf
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet
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#22  
URL
hxxp://tylentus.com/?1eD9Lf=1weeYfT1z4h5YPe0vO3Xck&V08=ydx3I0Gee7R_9Jcl5N0G7m&BOMGzI=5_

Infection
URL:Mal
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet #24  
URL
hxxp://www.imageigloo.com/images/5598Next2.gif

Infection
URL:Mal

from this post http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/323194-log-arch.html
Might I recommend replacing Avast with another antivirus program that is less prone to false positives?
Avast has a long history of finding malware in one picture of a image sharing site (such as imageigloo) and then blacklisting the whole site rather than just blocking that one picture.
AVG says that Imageigloo is clean and has been for 30+ days: imageigloo.com | Website Safety Report & Reviews For imageigloo.com
Google also says that imageigloo is clean and has been for 90+ days: Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for imageigloo.com
McAfee also says that imageigloo is clean: https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/imageigloo.com
The picture that Avast is flagging as malware is found in JerryG's signature and is (presumably) one that he uploaded.

If you look at AVComparative's tests (they test various AV programs to see how well they actually work) , you will see that while Avast gets very high scores for detection of malware/viruses, it had the second highest rates of false positives when tested in March 2014: http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/avc_fps_201403_en.pdf (the worst had 111 false positives, Avast had 94 false positives and the next had 19 false positives).
There has to be a line between protecting you and being the boy who cried wolf. IMO, Avast often crosses that line.

Aaron Z
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet #25  
Oh okay I see. The thing is a single image cannot infect your computer with malware. If an image is embedded in one of our pages (as is the case with the link you shared), the limitation of that reference link is to display or not display the image. As Aaron mentioned, it seems that imageigloo was at one time marked as malware by avast and so they are flagging the element on our page as potentially infectious even though it isn't.

Since we allow third party image references, these false positives may happen from time to time. Especially if they are coming from a popular image hosting service (or one that a single member with a lot of posts uses).

Long story short, I have conducted multiple tests on our system and found no malware injected into our pages at this time. :thumbsup:
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet #26  
Which pages? I just did multiple sweeps and found nothing.

Muhammad

This happens to me intermittently. A page will cause and error and then the next time you visit there is no error.

Regards
Aaron
 
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#27  
Thanks for your time, I am happy with Avast and it's performance plus also run a variety of other checks on my system. Think at this stage would rather have more false positives than no " positives " .

Unless something I feel significant, will just let it ride in the future.

Take care.
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet #28  
I appreciate the reports... keep them coming if you notice anything.
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet #29  
I got up at 4am this morning and got on line, it's now 6:30. The site has worked just the way it should, it has been 6 or more mo. since it has worked so good.
 
   / Avast showing malware pop ups on tractorbynet #30  
Hi Muhammad,
Getting a malware warning with Kaspersky last three days, appears to be occurring when I click on my email link from TBN to http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/323162-lucky-alive-new-post.html
("Lucky to be ALIVE!!!"). When it opens Firefox I get a malware/malicious URL warning. The link shows as "http://tylentus.com/?YT_O5N=gcs3xd&12k=b2_4P&GWFd2=SfY3yY6I&8ofZbi=_16v7&QHp9a=ZcY4d%hXcLs=2iVeKa&__glc=4" and shows it as "listed in database of malicious URLS". Other people on this link are reporting some issues with Avast again, too.
Note: Recently did a Kaspersky Internet Security "Technical Update", maybe this has something to do with it...
 

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