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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_news 2017-02-22 03:02 pm (UTC)

Yeah, if it's happening on multiple entries and your friends are getting the warning on things you aren't getting a warning for and vice versa, it's probably something triggering a random bug in Avast's detection or Avast inaccurately labeling something as dangerous or suspect. I mean, it's theoretically possible that someone could come up with a way to bypass all the ways we clean entries to remove suspect HTML, but if that were the case, everybody using Avast would be getting the same warning on the same page and would just be getting a warning on that page and no other.

I'd chalk it up to "Avast having a tantrum" -- false positives are pretty common -- but it might be worth you all scanning your computers with a different scanner just to be sure you don't have malware that Avast is missing that's injecting content into pages you load in your browser.


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