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Old 11-24-2011, 11:51 PM
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False Positive reports from AVAST

Almost every site I go to appears to have malware...

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Happens to all of them once in a while...

Avast update blocks legitimate Web sites
by Lance Whitney

An update rolled out yesterday to Avast's antivirus product contained a bug that flags legitimate Web sites as malware infected.

In a blog post late yesterday, Avast acknowledged the false positive glitch in an update known as 110411-1, which was automatically rolled out to Avast AV users earlier that day. The error has specifically affected versions 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x of Avast's antivirus software.
In an e-mail to CNET, an Avast spokesman said today that the update was downloaded by around 5 million users, mostly on the Western Hemisphere due to the time in which it was launched.
In-house sensors discovered the problem just a few minutes after the buggy update was released, and Avast workers managed to create and release a fix within 45 minutes, according to the company.
Known as 110411-2, the fix must be manually installed. Avast is advising all users to update their antivirus definitions by right-clicking the Avast taskbar icon (the orange (a) ball), then selecting Update, and then selecting Engine and Virus Definitions.
The Avast spokesman said the problem was caused by a bug in the company's URL normalizer library, which is used to modify a Web site's address into a standard format.

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Old 11-25-2011, 01:17 AM
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I have tried to reload like the instructions..but I Still have this problem...
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Old 11-25-2011, 12:12 PM
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What's Malware? Is it free? Where can I get some?
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Old 11-25-2011, 12:26 PM
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LOL, very cute....
Sometimes people who want the best bargains or do not have a thousand dollars for an Apple printer ( back in the day ) have to deal with other downsides....

It looks like they have fixed the situation... while I tried several times last night... it did not go away until this morning... it was not malware... it was the false report of sites having malware... it did not keep me from the site... just the DING DING pop up.
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