{Misc Support} Avast blocking CMN

[Arlin]

Not sure how relavant this is or if it just a false alarm, but Avast is blocking CMN for me with the following error displayed:

Trojan Horse Blocked
[L] HTML:IFrame-NH [Trj] (0)

[LeAnn B]

I'm having the same problem...

[jameshorsley197]

Same Here.

[hoosierdraft]

Some serious hack going on right now.

[[Admin] osborn4]

Can you report what screens/activites you were doing when you got the warning?

Also, are you all running Avast, or is this showing up with other antivirus? I'm not getting that message, but I'm running Symantec and am behind a content filter and proxy server.

[[Admin] danroth]

Okay, I've replicated the problem with Avast.
Now, it's time to solve.

[[Admin] danroth]

Okay, it's neither a serious hack nor a site bug.

I've determined it's a problem with Avast which is generating a false positive from the banner placement code at the top of the CMN page.

Let me hack a quick replacement.

[[Admin] danroth]

okay, everything should be copacetic now!

thanks for letting me know so I could fix it.

[hoosierdraft]

Move along, nothing to look at, get about your business...

Starting two days ago, whenever a page finally loaded on CMN, my browser would immediately flip to my iGoogle homepage. Earlier today, it was loading Java during the page load. All through this time, pages were taking a LONG time to load completely. Pages are still taking long to load at this point but no longer loading Java or dumping me to Google.

[Arlin]

I am still having the same problem...
Only way I can get to CMN is turn off HTTP traffic scanning.

[[Admin] danroth]

yeah, I've been able to reproduce it again.

bizarre that:
1) no other antivirus is raising flags
2) that it stopped being a problem for a little while and now is again

Let me see what I can find.
If anybody has more specific info, please let me know.

[[Admin] danroth]

p.s. The slowness also seems Avast-related. Only the machine I have Avast on loads the site slowly.