Trojan Horse detected on PH?

[Diabolik]

Sorry it's in the wrong section, thought it would get the most views here..

Don't know if it's my anti-virus playing up or what, but I just got an alert screaming "trojan horse blocked" when I came onto PH...

Anyone know of anything going on??

edit: think it may be the ad that shows on the top right of the banner.

Edited by Diabolik on Monday 21st March 19:13

[McSam]

Which anti-virus are you using? It could be something very prone to overreacting.. It seems a bit unlikely that you actually found a Trojan here!

[Diabolik]

Using Avast, have been for the last 7+ months and never had a problem before!

[_Batty_]

Diabolik said:

Using Avast, have been for the last 7+ months and never had a problem before!

same here (as i also use Avast!)

[Diesel Fury]

Diabolik said:

Using Avast, have been for the last 7+ months and never had a problem before!

I'm using Avast! too, I've not had any issues. An advert has set it off for sure, can you remember what advert was showing when it gave you the warning?

[magpie215]

yep my avast is going crazy too


. tag admeld......???

[MrLou]

It'll likely be one of the advert images.

Most people will get different ones so the problem won't be seen by everyone, and then there are the different browsers and OSes to take into account.

[Hub]

Nothing coming up on Avast for me. Probably a false positive anyway.

[oakdale]

Every page causes the trojan horse warning to come up for me (using Avast).

[Ow]

oakdale said:

Every page causes the trojan horse warning to come up for me (using Avast).

Happening with me too, it's a right pain!

[Diabolik]

If you're using Firefox, use adblock then you'll be trouble free..

[Hub]

OK, I just updated Avast with today's update and it is doing it now!

[y2blade]

Diabolik said:

If you're using Firefox, use adblock then you'll be trouble free..

+1 for firefox and adblock

[cheadle hulme]

What are these "adverts" people of speak of?

[Burrito]

http://linkscanner.explabs.com isn't picking up anything up, but avast is going mental!

Definitely one of the ad's.

[Stuart]

Admeld are our adserver, so it is probably a disproportionate response to something which has tripped an alert. If it happens again, it would be useful to get a screen grab of the offending ad if possible.

Oh, and ads pay the bills. We'd prefer it if you didn't block 'em!

[CatherineJ]

I'm getting it as well now, wasn't earlier on. It is coming up on every page I open.

Edited by CatherineJ on Monday 21st March 20:17

[Pupp]

Yep, mine giving multiple detections too, including when I loaded this reply form (ie no ad visible)

[Pupp]

://tag.admeld.com/ad/iframe/243/uk....

if that helps

[Stuart]

OK, I've taken the precaution of alerting our ad ops guys to see if they can take a look at it. It might be a new setting in Avast (if this is the only one registering a problem) that is setting it off, but better safe than sorry.