I have seen 3 ads pop now as “AVG has blocked this link for virus and or spyware activity”
Anyone else getting this?
early this morning I have had an AVG plug-in flag this site as security compromised - in retrospect, probably because of an ad
We have no virus or spyware on this site – you’ve picked something up somewhere else that is getting triggered by the calls in the ad software.
AVG is reading it as coming from this site and it’s not.
AVG is blocking a lot of sites lately that they didn’t use to. Sometimes if I retry it isn’t flagged. Sometimes it is. I’m not sure what is going on.
This just happened to me with one of Cecil’s columns. I opened it in a new tab, and got one of those AVG warnings. I closed the tab, thinking that I might have been redirected somehow, and tried to open the column twice more, getting the same warning. It worked normally on the fourth attempt.
I certainly believe TubaDiva’s assertion, otherwise I wouldn’t be here, but maybe some bad guy… did something… like hiding viruses/spyware in one of the ads? Is something like that possible?
I hope it’s not another failure on AVG’s part they screwed up bigtime with I-tunes a couple months ago.
Too late to edit: I also just noticed something odd about some threads I have open. They seem to be reloading themselves spontaneously. Maybe I should move up my regularly scheduled scans.
Weird- I had it trigger a few minutes ago when I was opening a piece of mail from Yahoo. Not sure why, it didn’t come up again when I re-opened it.
Not to minimize or trivialize anyone’s pain, but why aren’t you using Avast?
Anyway, Tuba is right. Ads come from the sites they come from. Not this one. But I don’t see how that could trigger an anti-virus message unless the foreign site is using an Iframe. Which, if so, is a terrible security leak that SDMB should plug up immediately.
As in right now.
I think this bears repeating: AVG is the ZoneAlarm of AV suites. Stop using it.
I’m not necessarily saying that is the problem, but I wonder if AVG on the OP’s computer is complaining about malvertisements (I just picked one link - googling gets you lots of hits).
OP: AVG, in my experience, has a lot of false positives. The only way for anyone else to check is for you to provide links to the ads.
Candjun: For once, a Microsoft news item where the company looks good. Malverts are the reason I keep my ad blocking software on, even on sites I like. Once you’ve had a particularly nasty strain of Vundo that even hoses your recovery partition, you get paranoid like that.