Avast! Blocking Google Translate? Trojan Horse??? WTF!
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A friend of mine was using Google Translate just a while ago for something and then when he went to use it the next time, the connection was blocked and this came up...
[IMG]http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/kenenora/wat-1.png[/IMG]
(Excuse the JPEG crap, the image was just a screencap paste via MSN)
I went there myself and AVG didn't block or warn me of anything. I scanned afterwords (with both AVG and MBAM) and nothing came up.
And looking at the info, it seems like some sort of Javascript infection? Embedded in the site itself??
It couldn'tve been from an ad because he has Adblock Plus.
Is this a false positive, or what?
(Also if this belongs in the technical support forum, please tell me so I can snip and move this)
Doesn't happen for me and I have Avast
All good here. Avast.
He says it's not blocked anymore, but I myself am still confused.
Why did it randomly block it? What is that "infection"?
It could have been embedded in an ad on the sketchy russian porn site you were looking at.
Most likely just a false positive. If you're that worried, do a system scan just to make sure.
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He scanned and nothing came up. But it still just doesn't add up.
[quote=avast]JS:ScriptIP-inf[/quote]
Infected javascript? Or a cookie?
I have no idea.
Also; Bear with me sometimes because I do know some stuff about computers and the like but I'm plain clueless in some, if not most areas...
Computer's infected, malware tried to inject something into the webpage, Avast picked it up, blocked that one.
I suggest reformat.
Or it was a scetchy russian porn ad.
Some javascript command that was executed pissed off avast it seems. May have to do with heuristics and maybe an unfinished page being scanned, or something in a page you translated as everyone has said.
He wasn't translating a page, he was using it to assist him on his Spanish homework.
Also, as I said, he has Ablock and he's scanned with Avast and MBAM and nothing came up and no other funny stuff happens...
I guess it really was just a false positive.
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