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New Wed 5 Oct 11 20:40 
 Avast! - Malware warning - ....
Anyone else getting warnings from Avast! triggered from this sites ads domain ?
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 20:45 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Zero
>> Anyone else getting warnings from Avast! triggered from this sites ads domain ?

Nah, we all stopped using Avast.
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 20:54 
 Avast! - Malware warning - spamcan61
Yep, me - dunno if it's real or a false positive, only started this evening.

avast says:-

Infection Details
URL: ads.car4play.com/www/delivery/afr.php?frameid
Process: file://C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe
Infection: html:Iframe-inf
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 20:55 
 Avast! - Malware warning - ....
I only switched on about an hour ago, one update later and the warnings started.
Microsoft's Exploder for me.
ad_leaderboard, ad_bannerreferer, ad_mpureferer they're all at it.
Last edited by: gmac on Wed 5 Oct 11 at 20:59
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 21:33 
 Avast! - Malware warning - busbee
Just switched on 5 minutes ago and got the avast warning.

As a precaution, I have just blocked the server at ads.car4play.com

I am also going to opt to have a blank screen come up on the browser,
as default (car4play is on the tool-bar for when I want it). That way I am only at risk
when I purposely look at a site. Rather than have adverts loaded each
time I switch the PC on.
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 21:40 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Iffy
I'm on my cranky old Vista laptop which runs avast.

No ads on the site, other than a warning triangle and a 'the connection was reset' message.

I blame that new designer lass.

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New Wed 5 Oct 11 21:52 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Zero
I blame Avast for a false positive.
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 22:47 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Slidingpillar
Maybe, but as Avast so far has been good, I'm going for a bit.
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 23:15 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Fullchat
Yeap its hit me.
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 23:29 
 Avast! - Malware warning - FocalPoint
Me too. I've e-mailed the webmaster.
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New Wed 5 Oct 11 23:34 
 Avast! - Malware warning - bathtub tom
It's probably this new forum.

Has anyone found it?
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New Thu 6 Oct 11 00:05 
 Avast! - Malware warning - car4play
Thanks for the notice. A few months ago we took our ad server offline because it got hit by a malware attack. Basically the OpenX ad server had a vulnerability that allowed it to get compromised.
Last week we completely reinstalled the OpenX ad server clean from the latest version. Clearly it still has vulnerabilities. Not great I know, but there isn't much else out there in the open source domain.
I have removed the offending appends and altered a couple of things, but all we can do is collectively keep an eye on it.
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New Thu 6 Oct 11 00:54 
 Avast! - Malware warning - devonite
just installed latest Firefox update - no probs - yet!
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New Fri 7 Oct 11 09:05 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Stuartli
>> just installed latest Firefox update - no probs - yet!>>

I had the Avast! malware warning yesterday when visiting this site, but it's stopped now. Two scans using Avast! and SUPERAntispyware revealed nothing amiss at the time.
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New Fri 7 Oct 11 09:40 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Suppose
>> >> just installed latest Firefox update - no probs - yet!>>
>>
>> I had the Avast! malware warning yesterday when visiting this site, but it's stopped now.
>> Two scans using Avast! and SUPERAntispyware revealed nothing amiss at the time.
>>

Good of you and "devonite" to confirm that Stephen's action "I have removed the offending appends and altered a couple of things" is working.

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New Thu 6 Oct 11 04:36 
 Avast! - Malware warning - Pat
>> I use the 'back' button on my browser to go back to the unread list and since we've had the extra adverts at the bottom of the forum, I have to press the back button three times to get it to work.

I wonder what else is loaded with each page?

<<

Well, that answers my question of last week then:)

Pat
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