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Postby Rodo » 03 Jan 2013, 19:17

Whenever I have been on the Daily Mail news website or the Cafe forum this evening, I have had a red notice from Avast saying it has blocked a malicious URL

Just thought I would let you know.
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Re: Daily Mail website

Postby Workingman » 03 Jan 2013, 20:45

Is it only happening on the DM website? And what does the Avast! log say about the URL being blocked?
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Re: Daily Mail website

Postby Rodo » 03 Jan 2013, 21:00

Yes it's just the news site and the forums. I don't know what it says tbh.
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Re: Daily Mail website

Postby Workingman » 03 Jan 2013, 21:39

Rodo, the info should be in Avast!'s log.

It is probably a link in an advert taking people to another site, so not much of a worry. Sometimes indirect linking is not liked by Anti-Virus programs.

If the warning starts cropping up in other places then it could be more of a problem.
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Re: Daily Mail website

Postby Rodo » 03 Jan 2013, 21:44

Infection Details



URL:

http://d1ros97qkrwjf5.cloudfront.net/42/...



Process:

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexpl...



Infection:

URL:Mal
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Re: Daily Mail website

Postby Workingman » 03 Jan 2013, 22:01

It appears to be a link in a dieting website. The dieting site might be OK, but some of its contributors might not be.

Do a full scan with Avast! just to make sure you have not been infected.
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Re: Daily Mail website

Postby Rodo » 04 Jan 2013, 01:24

Yes have done that thanks. All seems well.
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