I ONLY get this when I try to go to www.yahoo.com….. My Avast says a virus was found…
File name: http://www.yahoo.com/\unp180391006
Malware: VBS: Malware-gen
Malware type: Virus/worm
VPS: 080622-0, 06/22/2008
This JUST started doing this and like I said…ONLY when I try to go to the yahoo main page. Anyone know WHY?
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5 responses so far ↓
1 jibbarjabar // Jun 22, 2008
Relax. Yahoo has no virus!
It is a confirmed false positive detection by Avast anti-virus. The official word from Avast is that the issue will be fixed with the next Avast VPS update:
Full info:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=36506.0
Keep manually checking for Avast update manually…just right click the Avast "a-ball" icon > Updating > iAVS Update
Good luck.
2 Sammie // Jun 22, 2008
good thing im not the only one! Mine has been doing it 2!
3 Annett // Jun 22, 2008
I'm getting the same thing. I get the avast warning block that says "virus was found" and it only seems to warn me when I go to yahoo.com. My information states-
http://www.yahoo.com/\unp244235695
vps version 080622-0,06/22/2008
Are we sure this is nothing to worry about?? Should we just ignore the warning and continue as if nothing is wrong??
4 veeganboy // Jun 22, 2008
In the meantime,until The Avast false-positive is fixed, you can circumvent the block by going to yahoo.com/mail.
5 Mysterio // Jun 22, 2008
I'm glad It's not me only. Thanks for the information!
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