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Well I've been working on cleaning out a nasty virus on one of my computers and decided I'd better go ahead and install avast. Now when I come to the c-brat page I get Virus Detected and Infection blocked. This is what it reports. Infection: JS:Redirector-BJB [Trj] Anyone else get this?

thanks Roger

ps I'm going to move to Florida where it is warm.....
 
Roger,

I also use Avast and I have been getting the same message you just received for a couple of weeks now. There was a previous post mentioning they were getting this alert also. I have just been ignoring it for the time being. I can not remember how to get Avast to ignore it though.

Bill
 
I'd been getting the same thing with Avast even though I've been running it for a few years and never had a problem with this site. I tried to figure out why but got nowhere. I finally uninstalled Avast because I got tired of the warnings. I even pm'ed the folks who posted earlier about the same issue but I don't believe they figured it out either.
 
It's a bogus alert. The short version:

They are looking for the existence of a piece of code that was compromised at one point in time, and simply flagging us as infected if they see the file exists. Trouble is - the problem was patched two versions ago (I applied both updates), and there's no way for them to know what version we are running.

I feel like a broken record, but I'll say it again - there is no such thing as effective client-side antivirus that accurately warns against problematic web sites. They simply don't have access to the details of code on our server necessary to say one way or the other.

The best way to protect yourself from malicious code on web sites, is by running the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox or Safari. All of them in their default configuration give accurate warnings of sites that are problematic - even here. The two times we were infected, all these browsers reported it accurately - and equally important, they recognized in short order once we'd fixed things.
 
Bill, thanks for the explaination. I figured it was a false positive. Thanks again
Roger
 
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