Malware alert

[Dustin Cantrell]

I keep getting an Avast malware alert from a banner ad on BS. Anybody else? Not sure what the banner is for as it blocks it but maybe this will help.



URL:

http://ab158427.servedbyadbutler.com/adserve/;ID



Infection:

URL:Mal

 

[jeffhughes]

I'm getting the same thing...

 

[jtischauser]

Ugh!

 

[poopgiggle]

The Nordic Components banner is triggering it.

E: This might be a false positive.

E2: Yeah after looking into Avast! the URL:Mal error means that the site is blacklisted for some reason. Google safety checker comes up clean but I don't know for sure that it's safe.

 

[jtischauser]

What's a good malware and or virus checker for my PC BTW?

 

[Robusto]

Macintosh.

J/K Malwarebytes works pretty good. http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Sophos for antivirus.

 

[jeffhughes]

Jesse can you take down Nordic's banner for the time being?

 

[jtischauser]

I can't do anything with banners and such. Just text Brandon but he's in Vegas already so he maybe incapacitated.

 

[bsdubois00]

Nordic banner is down - back to partying!!!

 

[Dustin Cantrell]

Still getting an alert. Probably a false positive, but annoying, still.


Infection Blocked


URL:

http://ab158427.servedbyadbutler.com/adserve/;ID



Infection:

URL:Mal

 

[poopgiggle]

OK, last night I messed up. It's the banner ad at the very bottom of the page. It came up as Nordic last night but if you refresh the URL a few times it cycles through a few others.

 

[jtischauser]

elephant dung

 

[bsdubois00]

Its something from the ad server that we use. It appears that somehow their links got flagged.

I'll do some more research next weekend when I'm back home - for the time being I took all the ads down.

Let me know if you still see any issues.

Brandon

 

[bsdubois00]

Just a note everyone - I ran like 3 site checkers and they are all showing the site to be clean. Somehow the url for the banners got black listed.

Does anyone NOT running Avast see this?

 

[poopgiggle]

Just a note everyone - I ran like 3 site checkers and they are all showing the site to be clean. Somehow the url for the banners got black listed.

Does anyone NOT running Avast see this?

We're not the only people with this issue. Hopefully Avast will get on this.

 

[Robusto]

Does anyone NOT running Avast see this?

No Avast, no problems.
Still partying though.

 

[bsdubois00]

Ok so it's not a boomershooter issue. It's an avast issue?

 

[poopgiggle]

At least one other person is reporting a similar problem with adbutler banners.