It says it's called HEUR/HTML.Malware and was previously called HEUR/Exploit.HTML for some undisclosed reason. It says there is suspicious code and it says that this type of malware is "AHeAD Heuristic special detection". I'm not sure what that means.
1. your antivirus is registering a false positive, in which case you should manually keep checking for updates periodically throughout the day in case they have a fix coming out soon.
or
2. there actually *is* something wrong with the scripts on the profile pages, and only your antivirus is smart enough to pick it up.
i vote for #1 myself, especially since ben has already assured us that there is nothing wrong with his web pages
still, it wouldn't hurt to run a good scan on your computer just to be sure. i quite like malwarebytes myself, it's one of the best cleaning tools on the market (and it's free!)
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For some reason it's telling me there is malware if I try to look at any profile, including my own.
- 16/07/2010 01:11:27 PM
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Probably that you've got something wrong with your machine.
- 16/07/2010 01:34:41 PM
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I doubt it.
- 16/07/2010 02:21:15 PM
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I don't have the issue though, and I just looked at your profile. *NM*
- 16/07/2010 02:47:03 PM
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I'm not having any problems
- 16/07/2010 03:08:14 PM
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macs still have viruses, you just have to expend slightly more effort to get them
- 16/07/2010 04:33:16 PM
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Did you know that Apple is now number 1 in the amount of security breaches in the software? *NM*
- 17/07/2010 07:46:17 AM
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security breaches are different than actual virus infection though.... *NM*
- 17/07/2010 07:51:26 AM
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yes they are, and it's much better to be reactive than proactive!!
- 17/07/2010 02:40:05 PM
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there are two possiblities here
- 16/07/2010 04:32:17 PM
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