Avast Virus Warning?

[gaj104]

Having just clicked on a link in the excel forum Avast warned me of a malware download.

The link is:

http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=326036\unp200197482

And the name is VBS:SelfMailer-gen3 [Wrm]

Is this something to worry about?

Thanks

 

[Von Pookie]

Nothing I see on that page should be causing anything like that. No links/programs to executables, etc. there. My antivirus (Symantec) didn't even twitch.

I'll pass it on and have our 'techy' people check it out, though, just in case.

However: it's possible you could have picked something up somewhere else and it just happened to pop up then. Have you run your antivirus/Spybot/Adaware recently?

 

[starl]

According to Suat, Avast thinks the Outlook code in the 3rd post is a virus. It's not.

 

[gaj104]

Thanks for looking into this. I'm usually pretty up to date with my scans, but i'll double check.

Appreciated

 

[starl]

It may not be an outdated scanner.
some lines of code are interpreted as viruses by some virus scanners. If I remember correctly, there was a similar issue with Colo's HTML maker and some virus program - you had to set up permission for his program. There's nothing wrong with the code - but scanners err on the side of caution.

 

[mrMozambique]

I'm getting Avast warnings and blocks for the MrExcel forum. It seems to be many of the pages. I can get to the forum (obviously), but several pages have been blocked. Anyone else?


It says:
MALWARE BLOCKED
HTML:Script-inf

For example: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352807