   | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate | | Solved: Avira warning about post on TSG Just had this come up:
Access to the data has been denied!
Warning: A virus or unwanted program has been found in the HTTP Data.
Requested URL: http://forums.techguy.org/general-se...-firewall.html
Information: Contains HEUR/HTML.Malware suspicious code
Generated by AntiVir WebGuard 8.0.15.0, AVE 8.1.1.35, VDF 7.0.6.241
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"If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself." - Unknown |  | Former Administrator with 104,744 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Experience: Advanced | | I clicked on it. I have AVG. Nothing popped up  | | | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate | | It only happened on that one post. I just tried it again from the forum page and didn't get the warning but I do get it if I click the link in my previous post that was copied from the page I got on my earlier attempt. |  | Distinguished Member with 4,606 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario, Canada Experience: Getting it | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Davec  Just had this come up:
Access to the data has been denied!
Warning: A virus or unwanted program has been found in the HTTP Data.
Requested URL: http://forums.techguy.org/general-se...-firewall.html
Information: Contains HEUR/HTML.Malware suspicious code
Generated by AntiVir WebGuard 8.0.15.0, AVE 8.1.1.35, VDF 7.0.6.241 | Maybe it is because it says malware so much on that page.  |  | Registered User with 722 posts. | | | | One of the replies in that thread had faked up links like http://www.google.com
where it really wasn't google.com inside the url.
So maybe your browser checks for that as a heuristic test? It would fail this post too then. |  | Administrator with 63,641 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada | | Your heuristics are probably set too high. On the Antivir website this happened recently with MajorGeeks so they are false positives. If you want to leave your heuristics set high you can tell it to ignore specific sites. | | | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookiegal Your heuristics are probably set too high. On the Antivir website this happened recently with MajorGeeks so they are false positives. If you want to leave your heuristics set high you can tell it to ignore specific sites. | I'll double check when I get back to that machine in the morning, but I'm 95% sure they're still at the default of medium. | | | Administrator with 63,641 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada | | I deleted a post in that thread that had a hidden link labeled "Avast" that actually went to another site which is questionable so that may be what it picked up on.
Could you try clicking on the link that gave you that alert again and see whether it repeats or not?
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Microsoft MVP - Consumer Security | | | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookiegal I deleted a post in that thread that had a hidden link labeled "Avast" that actually went to another site which is questionable so that may be what it picked up on.
Could you try clicking on the link that gave you that alert again and see whether it repeats or not? | I'm home at the moment and I don't have the premium version with "Web Guard" here so it'll have to be in the morning. | | | Administrator with 63,641 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada |
02-Oct-2008, 09:57 PM
#10 | OK, thanks.  | | | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate |
03-Oct-2008, 11:01 AM
#11 | Same results as my post 3 above. | | | Administrator with 63,641 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada |
04-Oct-2008, 01:52 PM
#12 | Then it must be too agressive heuristics. | | | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate |
04-Oct-2008, 02:05 PM
#13 | I did check that, it's on medium. | | | Administrator with 63,641 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada |
04-Oct-2008, 02:12 PM
#14 | Then medium is still too agressive in some cases. | | | Distinguished Member with 3,336 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Roseburg, OR USA Experience: Intermediate |
04-Oct-2008, 02:30 PM
#15 | Frankly, on a work machine I prefer to err on the side of caution. |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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