Avast Identifying Neowin As A Malicius URL?


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Could you post a higher resolution of that image so we can see exactly what the URL itself was blocked, since it seems to be appearing in a specific thread, it's likely to be related to someone's signature.

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I looked at the thread, took a look at all items in source and listed by members, and the only thing that looks like it might even approximate the URL I'm seeing is this image.

sig_lbrown_v3.png

Does that cause it to appear?

To clarify it's an image that appears in the signature of member

theblazingangel

It's a 0x0 png & and points to http://lrebrown.x10h...g_lbrown_v3.png

Because that particular site no longer exists it would redirect directly to

http://hosting.x10hosting.com/

...which I think is the site that is being shown I believe in the image the OP posted.

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sophos does that as well. turns out sophos is reacting to advertisements (even for subscribers)

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Zonealarm here... all is clear...

Although if you think about it, there's a lot of malice used by some trolls on this site, just like any forum, so in theory... maybe avast was right...?

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Zonealarm here... all is clear...

Although if you think about it, there's a lot of malice used by some trolls on this site, just like any forum, so in theory... maybe avast was right...?

Well if ZoneAlarm is giving the all clear that the URL is not malicious, then I'm convinced! :rolleyes:

The title of this thread needs to be changed, it specifies Neowin to be malicious, not a URL within it. Something more like Avast identifies a thread on Neowin to contain malicious content would be better.

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Well if ZoneAlarm is giving the all clear that the URL is not malicious, then I'm convinced! :rolleyes:

The title of this thread needs to be changed, it specifies Neowin to be malicious, not a URL within it. Something more like Avast identifies a thread on Neowin to contain malicious content would be better.

Just like having jistina beaver and nickeblech be an xfactor judge.....

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I read somewhere that Avast upgraded the detection agorithm and finally detected Neobond....oh noes...

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