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Avast! says virus on Yahoo.com

i63.photobucket.com — Avast! anti-virus says there is a virus/malware on Yahoo.com.

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  • pxujn, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Whew! I thought I was the only one!
  • inkslinger00743, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Relax. 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=3...

    Keep manually checking for Avast update manually...just right click the Avast "a-ball" icon > Updating > iAVS Update

    Good luck.
  • GoKings, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Thank god I'm not the only one... What the hell is going on?
  • Viperlasson, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1Just happened to me also, my other computer running Nod32 is not picking anything up though. False positive?
  • DrakeGTA, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1Believe it or not, a couple years ago, back before ad block and when yahoo was a little more lax about letting advertisers run scripts, I was reading a page on yahoo news and the ad in the background tried to install a trojan, but my anti-virus caught it.
  • inkslinger00743, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1mine is doing it too just after an update
  • inactive, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1While I think its kinda funny, Avast is known for its excessive false positive virus and trojan detections.
  • PeteBeast, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1MS bought Yahoo! finally?
  • rhodz, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1avg 8.0 update don't work.. any suggestions?
  • Viperlasson, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1Thanks, looked like they already fixed it.
  • markm913, on 06/23/2008, -0/+0OK it's fixed... get the updated database now!

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