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Notice: FALSE Positive by Avast on XenForo Personal Details Page

Discussion in 'Board Issues/News' started by A.D., Apr 1, 2016.  |  Print Topic

  1. A.D.

    A.D. #1 Custodian

    Region:
    SouthEast
    State/Country:
    TN
    City:
    Athens
    Ride:
    Reynolds T-Bone
    Name:
    AD
    Just for your information, if you use Avast as your Virus Scanning Program you may receive a False Positive indication of an infection on Recumbent Riders. For it to even occur, you have to be on your Personal Details page which invokes a XenForo javascript routine.(i.e. personal_details_editor.js)

    My guess is when Avast updated their virus definition signatures yesterday, it caused this False Positive indication to start appearing.


    At present, my own Avast program info reveals…
    Screen Shot 2016-04-01 at 10.25.03 AM.jpg

    I got this notice myself…
    Screen Shot 2016-03-31 at 9.43.17 PM.jpg

    And upon receiving such, I immediately scanned our entire website with ClamAV and was unable to turn-up anything. :mmm:

    It was then, I started researching the possibility of a False Positive perhaps and noticed the above mentioned thread on XenForo Forum explaining such. :thumbsup:

    Also for what it's worth, our host (ASmallOrange) automatically runs a daily virus/trojan/malware scan on ALL of their hosted websites. :applause:

    :embarrassed9: So in short sorry, but you may get a False Positive indication (i.e. Other:Malware-gen [Trj]) of a Trojan if you are using Avast -and- you go to edit your Personal Details until Avast updates their signature set.
     

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