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15 posts & 8 voices | Started 1 year ago by psychle | Latest reply from jhn671

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psychle - Member

Using Google chrome, everytime I open it up, I get a 'Trojan Horse Blocked' alert, says the infection is HTML:Iframe-inf and that the process is either:

http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php

or

R2.ace.advertising.com/

Both with a long string of code afterwards (that includes the http://www.singletrackworld.com url)

I thought this was just for STW, but it seems to be any web page I open in Chrome? I've done a full scan with Avast and it didn't find anything, any ideas what I should do next?

Again, just tried something else, opened Explorer and got the same error/alert message... WTF is going on?

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

Make sure you're running the latest version of Avast.

Windows Update.

Malwarebytes.

Posted 1 year ago #
Drac - Moderator

Getting the same on my laptop and Mrs netbook, both reported virsuses and shows works fine on my PC though a scan both showed infections but hasn't fixed the problem. Down side of none techno wife and a 8 year old using both.

Reckon it's a database issue though as the PC is updated with latest but the Laptop and Netbook aren't and they won't update.

UPDATE: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110411125806AAHejYB I'm wasted as a Paramedic.

Posted 1 year ago #
igm - Member

Yep - I had that tonight. On both Chrome and IE7. Re-installing Google Chrome and swapping to Microsoft Security Essentials has sorted it. I suspect it is Avast being overly officious.

Posted 1 year ago #
psychle - Member

It's only just started tonight though? I haven't changed any settings, has there been an update or something?

EDIT: ah, I just saw the link Drac posted... looks like it's an Avast issue then?

Posted 1 year ago #
bruneep - Member

same here thought it was something the kids had clicked on.

Posted 1 year ago #
psychle - Member

Hmmm.... just ran windows update and installed Service Pack 1 (no idea why it hadn't automatically done so?), seems to have fixed the Avast problem, no warnings after the restarts....

Posted 1 year ago #
bruneep - Member

just downloaded avast 6.0.1000 via their site, seems to have sorted it.

Posted 1 year ago #
tadeuszkrieger - Member

I've had avast going berserk all night as well.

Posted 1 year ago #
Drac - Moderator

Updated trough avast itself and yeah sorted.

Posted 1 year ago #
Pete - Member

Same here, updated virus database and 'engine' all OK now. Wish I found this thread before trying numerous restores..

Posted 1 year ago #
Drac - Moderator

I'm restoring over 7k of files from the chest on the wife's notebook it out there last night that aren't viruses. Laptop is next.

Posted 1 year ago #
igm - Member

Microsoft Security found some malicious java stuff that Avast hadn't - don't know if it's related.

Posted 1 year ago #
Drac - Moderator

Only in the sense of the database being bugged would maybe be why Avast missed it.

Posted 1 year ago #
jhn671 - Member

Any idea where you got the virus. Ever since I started AVG ThreatLabs free reports, I haven't had virus problems. You can check it out at http://www.avgthreatlabs.com.

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