Virus?

**Jay-Jay** · 10-02-2011,08:00 PM

I've been meaning to report this a while back, but I keep forgetting about it.

Whenever I find myself clicking on the first page of one particular thread (link provided below). I get a report from my anti-virus (Avast Home Edition) that it blocked an image or URL from that page. (attached below is a screenshot).

Here is the link to the topic in question: http://psx-scene.com/forums/f190/fba...ld-r486-71661/ (FBAnext Emulator: Now at build r486!)

**damanptyltd** · 10-02-2011,08:16 PM

Jeee thats wierd....i have used bitdefender, kaspersky and AVG when accessing the site and no problems...and it appears it is detecting an uploaded .png as a malicious object.....this sounds very wierd because it is most definitely not. I think this is more an issue with your internet security then the site, but i'll assume the tech guy will look into this if it persists

Though to help us out, have you tried accessing the same page with other internet security suites? Seeing that i haven't heard a report like this before, it appears to be an isolated incident with your local installation of the software.

**DSAPSX** · 10-02-2011,08:31 PM

Thanks for reporting this Jay-Jay. Looking into it but as damanptyltd said this is the first time I'm hearing of this. We will research and post back soon.

**Rich** · 10-02-2011,09:10 PM

I also use Avast, and when I went to the URL same thing. Since it is an image not working anyways, I removed it from the post and the error has stopped occuring. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Rich

**polki333** · 10-02-2011,09:10 PM

Hi guys, just letting you know that I tried the link and I get a "Potentially malicious website" when loading the page warning aswell, I try to manually open the picture near the top and it gives the same warning, no problem just letting ya know. I get the warning with Malwarebytes.
Edit: Dont worry, pic gone/problem gone!

**amp2006** · 10-03-2011,01:33 AM

thats not the site issue i think its the Ads issue cause that .

**garyopa** · 10-03-2011,08:59 AM

It is because the picture is coming from a .co.cc domain

Those sites are famous for hosting spam, so recently Google and some AV programs have blacklisted any domain the ends in .co.cc

**ZrrWRI87Ho6eT43** · 10-03-2011,10:48 AM

I don't even see such picture/link... instead get 400 Bad Request: Request Blocked

anyone who can try uploading this PNG to virustotal.com

**DSAPSX** · 10-03-2011,10:58 AM

We are doing further research on this and will post back here with more info. Thanks for the follow up everyone.

**Rich** · 10-03-2011,11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Rich

Since it is an image not working anyways, I removed it from the post and the error has stopped occuring. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Removed this already. Issue is gone.

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