Threat Has Been Detected

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

Twice when I logged in here today, my computer went Ding Ding Ding – "Threat is Detected!"

Anyone else had this? My protection is AVAST! Free protection.

When I went to details, it said "My Hobby Store!"

Bob

Edited By Bob Wilson on 13/01/2014 19:33:36

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Probably a false alert Bob,

My PC isn't registering anything.

Colin

[The Long BuildParticipant @thelongbuild]

No Nothing

[Keith LongParticipant @keithlong89920]

Hi Bob

A couple of days before your post the same question was raised on the Model Engineer sister website to this one. The application that threw up the alarm was Avast in that case as well. No one else using the ME website saw anything and there is a LOT more traffic there than here. The consensus there, was that it was due to Avast being "over eager" and throwing up a false positive. The site that caused the alarm on the ME website was also the "MyHobbyStore" site so perhaps work was going on there that Avast took exception to.

Short answer is that doesn't seem to be a problem, and a lot of folk have used the sites since the alarm first appeared.

Keith

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I saw these as well.

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

I didn't really think there was a problem, but it is still doing it!

Bob

[William HumphriesParticipant @williamhumphries78285]

Im getting it as well

Avast says

 

URL: http://WWW.MYHOBBYSTORE.CO.UK/PRODUCT_IMAGES/SMALL/46942.jpg

INFECTION: URL:MAL

Edited By William Humphries on 15/01/2014 01:02:14

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Perhaps Avast hasn't updated its security certificates, this has happened before with Avast

Edited By Paul T on 15/01/2014 06:20:49

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Response from MyHobbyStore:

Yes indeed, we seem to be having "false positives" thrown up by Avast.

We think Avast for some reason has suddenly taken a dislike to the ad banners we see on the page headers, so we're working with Avast and Sparklit (who host the banners) to get this resolved.

Colin

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