files.wordpress.com Serving malicious content?

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• Jul 5, 2013 at 7:07 pm #1336634
  eksith

  Member

  Hi,

  I just visited my blog after ages and noticed some of my headers are triggering a malicious URL warning.

  I went to write a blog post with a screenshot, I noticed all of the images served from files.wordpress.com (actually eksith.files.wordpress.com) are being blocked with an AV warning.

  My Antivirus is Avast and I haven’t had issues with false positives before, which I truly hope this is.

  Does anyone else have the same problem?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  Jul 5, 2013 at 8:49 pm #1336798
  pcrumm

  Member

  I’ve gone through your site’s media and didn’t locate anything unusual, so this looks to be a false positive from Avast. I’ve contacted them asking to remove the warning or to provide a little more information about what’s of concern.

  I’ll let you know as soon as I hear back.

  Jul 5, 2013 at 9:56 pm #1336830
  eksith

  Member

  Original poster

  Thank you so much!

  Jul 8, 2013 at 2:43 am #1336890
  pcrumm

  Member

  I’ve just heard back from Avast that this false positive should be cleared–can you let me know if you’re still seeing that message?

  Jul 8, 2013 at 4:44 am #1336891
  justjennifer

  Member

  @pcrumm-check out the “avast” tag. A few other members reported up to and including July 7.

  Jul 8, 2013 at 6:25 am #1336892
  eksith

  Member

  Original poster

  Hi,

  I updated my virus definitions just now, and it’s no longer showing up on my blog, but strangely, it’s showed up on a blog that had reblogged me :

  http://roshansony.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/bank-of-america-bot-cares-about-you/

  It looks like the false positive still continues on some subdomains, but not others?

  Jul 8, 2013 at 7:17 pm #1336907
  eurello

  Staff

  Hi there – they cleared the URL for your site, but possibly not for this one. Can you please contact them directly about this here:
  http://www.avast.com/contact-form.php?loadStyles

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