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Avast reporting threat on boards.ie

mcgovern · 2018-02-13 11:00:51

Avast reported a threat while browsing boards, ironically the threat was named HTML:Google-A [Phish] and the page was the "Google is listening" thread in After Hours. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057839088

13-02-2018 11:00am

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Avast reported a threat while browsing boards, ironically the threat was named HTML:Google-A [Phish] and the page was the "Google is listening" thread in After Hours.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057839088

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#2 13-02-2018 11:07am

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It seems you're not the only one. Could you expand the More Details field, please?

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#3 13-02-2018 11:49am

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Full details attached though it doesn't provide much extra information.

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#4 13-02-2018 12:26pm

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Hmmm, it looks like a false positive. Not showing anything suspicious across VirusTotal

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#5 13-02-2018 12:27pm

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Strange, any time I go to that thread I get the alert but not getting it on any other thread.

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#6 13-02-2018 12:43pm

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It's odd. Looking at anything posted before spurious mentioned Avast causing issues within the thread, in case of suspicious links, the sites mentioned aren't out of place:
Imgur
YouTube
Wikipedia
Wired
Google (MyAccount)
Google (History)
The Daily Beast
BBC

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#7 13-02-2018 12:59pm

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Getting no such Avast reports using Firefox with win 10

Please follow site and charter rules. "Resistance is futile"

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#8 16-02-2018 5:26pm

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Got it there myself too

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#9 18-02-2018 4:13pm

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I am getting an "Insecure content blocked. This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources" on the search bar of google chrome.

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#10 19-02-2018 12:46pm

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We've flagged it to the tech team. There may be some content originating from a http link that's causing this warning to be shown.

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