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How NOT to Respond to a Malware Alert
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 see these types of threads in forums all the time. It's always a bit disconcerting because the play-by-play is nearly always the same. Someone reports the forum is generating an antivirus alert, the moderator denies it, others claim their antivirus isn't detecting so it *must* be a false positive. At some point, one or more of the original reporters end up disabling their antivirus so they aren't 'bothered' by the alerts. Eventually the other scanners catch up, more people are complaining, the forum owner finally takes action, and you just know that pretty much all of those posters were infected.

Here's an abbreviated synopsis of one such forum thread:

Poster 1: Kasperksy is alerting when I visit the forum. I disabled Kaspersky so I could have access. Anyone else getting an alert?

Poster 2: Had the same problem; installed Avira and now everything is ok.

Poster 3: Must be a false positive. AVG isn't alerting.

Moderator: We keep getting the alert from Kaspersky too. It's been popping up for two weeks now. Other scanners aren't detecting anything so we're ignoring it.

Poster 1: I installed BitDefender instead. Now I don't have a problem with the alert.

Poster 4: Ditto. I went to NOD32.

Poster 5: I use Kaspersky Internet Security and I keep getting the alerts.

Poster 6: I use F-Secure Client Security and I'm getting an alert on every page of the forum. Anyone know what's going on?

Poster 3: Dunno. Using AVG and everything is fine here.

Poster 7: I use AVAST and now I'm getting alerts too.

Poster 6: Hey, Kaspersky stopped alerting.

Moderator:

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