Avast AV Trojan conflict with LJ
Mar. 13th, 2010 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raloriaI've been running into this problem all day and have seen postings from others reporting the same. We're getting an alert from Avast about a Trojan Horse on certain LJ pages.
Here's some info. I found about the problem:
Avast! anti-virus flagging our JavaScript loading as a trojan horse
Hey all,
Just an update that we've investigated the reports that something on various LJ pages (such as comment pages with existing comments) is causing anti-virus trojan horse warnings. Ops has investigated and confirmed that there is no such threat present on these pages, and Support has tested/confirmed that only Avast! anti-virus users are seeing this problem.
BBB was updated with the following:
"Users using Avast! anti-virus software are seeing trojan horse warnings when loading various LiveJournal pages. LiveJournal staff have investigated these reports and have determined that there is no infection on the LiveJournal site, including the files served by the l-stat.livejournal.com domain, but rather that a change in Avast!'s heuristics/definitions files has caused them to incorrectly flag the loading of some LiveJournal JavaScript files. Avast! users should contact the Avast! support department directly to report this issue."
Thanks!
Source
Looks like it's a false alarm. The one comment to this post mentioned that they updated Avast (to DB 100313-1) and the problem stopped, so I might try that 'cause this is getting mighty annoying (not to mention unnerving until now).
Pass the word along if you know anyone who uses Avast. ;)
Edit: My Avast updated the virus database while I was making this post and now I'm not getting anymore Trojan warnings. They must have realized the problem and updated things. Glad that's over! :)
Here's some info. I found about the problem:
Avast! anti-virus flagging our JavaScript loading as a trojan horse
Hey all,
Just an update that we've investigated the reports that something on various LJ pages (such as comment pages with existing comments) is causing anti-virus trojan horse warnings. Ops has investigated and confirmed that there is no such threat present on these pages, and Support has tested/confirmed that only Avast! anti-virus users are seeing this problem.
BBB was updated with the following:
"Users using Avast! anti-virus software are seeing trojan horse warnings when loading various LiveJournal pages. LiveJournal staff have investigated these reports and have determined that there is no infection on the LiveJournal site, including the files served by the l-stat.livejournal.com domain, but rather that a change in Avast!'s heuristics/definitions files has caused them to incorrectly flag the loading of some LiveJournal JavaScript files. Avast! users should contact the Avast! support department directly to report this issue."
Thanks!
Source
Looks like it's a false alarm. The one comment to this post mentioned that they updated Avast (to DB 100313-1) and the problem stopped, so I might try that 'cause this is getting mighty annoying (not to mention unnerving until now).
Pass the word along if you know anyone who uses Avast. ;)
Edit: My Avast updated the virus database while I was making this post and now I'm not getting anymore Trojan warnings. They must have realized the problem and updated things. Glad that's over! :)
