Virus warnings popping up on AW?

Caroline · May 25, 2010

Hello all,

Lately (in the last week or so), when I log into the AW forum and surf around, my virus detector has been going nuts. I keep getting a little pop-up from Avira saying it's detecting viruses while I'm navigating this site. Just wanted to let everyone know, since I'm not sure if anyone else is experiencing this. And if this isn't the right place to post this, could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Jamesaritchie · May 25, 2010

Norton tells me AW is safe, but that's no guarantee.

Shadow_Ferret · May 25, 2010

My virus detector has never warned me about AW. Maybe you picked up a trojan or something somewhere else. I'd do a thorough scan for viruses and spyware.

backslashbaby · May 25, 2010

It's probably already on your PC, or false positives.

PM Medievalist or use the Contact form; they won't want to wait to find the post here.

If you need help getting rid of anything, give a holler

dpaterso · May 25, 2010

There were threads discussing similar problems around this time last month... it may be a Google ads issue... take a peek at this post from Medievalist.

PS - edited thread title from "Viruses popping up on AW?" to "Virus warnings popping up on AW?"

-Derek

Maryn · May 25, 2010

Don't I remember something very like this addressed perhaps a month ago, that some people's antivirus software was identifying certain legitimate ads as viruses? You might want to scan the subject lines for similar issues.

Maryn, muzzy but remembering a little

Edit: Eek, dpaterson is in my brain!

SWest · May 25, 2010

Maryn said:
Edit: Eek, dpaterson is in my brain!

That is concerning...

Deleted member 42 · May 25, 2010

It's really not on this site; you may be getting a false positive because of the Google ads that support the site, or you may be getting a delayed notification related to something already in your cache.

In a couple of cases I've been able to track down a warning that was caused by something in someone's sig causing a false positive.

I could probably tell you more if your warning includes a specific warning.

tjwriter · May 25, 2010

Lisa, I'm going to toss this in here because it relates sort of. I've told Del to use the contact form to get with all of you directly, but I figure you should know.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4988843&postcount=10996

DeleyanLee · May 25, 2010

Saw this thread, TJ. Thanks.

It's just really sad that a corporation doesn't have as good an anti-virus as I have at home, y'know.

Thanks!

Deleted member 42 · May 25, 2010

DeleyanLee said:
Saw this thread, TJ. Thanks.

It's just really sad that a corporation doesn't have as good an anti-virus as I have at home, y'know.

Thanks!

They can get pretty decent free software.

At the very least, the IT people should not let ANYONE run as Admin.

Caroline · May 25, 2010

Thanks, everyone. I'm going to run a full scan on my computer to make sure the problem's not coming from my end. On the plus side, at least I know my virus scanner is working.

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