anti-virus warning when opening dathorn.com

[bartdotla]

Cpanel54 was having an outage a few minutes ago, I wanted to logon to dathorn.com but while loading the site I got:



I guess my anti-virus program is confused?

[Frank Hagan]

Well, I can't find anything anywhere about the "Dldr.agen.EP.6" virus ... it doesn't show up on Norton/Symantec, McAfee, TrendMicro, or Avast's sites. Sophos had some similar listings ... Dldr-EC, an "old" signature from 2004 that was a trojan downloader.

I suspect that your antivirus is objecting to the Javascript for the "Live Help" that appears in the header. You might let them know they are getting a false positive on that page so they can tune their signature files.

BTW - for a free personal virus program, I really like Avast; I've been using it for over a year, with several family members switched over to it in that time).

[AndrewT]

I would agree with Frank that it probably has something do with the LiveHelp javascript. We've not had anyone else report this so if you can reproduce this please do let us know.

[ZYV]

I would recommend GriSoft's AVG Free over Avast. Unfortunately, the latter seems to miss a lot of signatures of malware which is widespread over here while AVG performs reasonably well.

[Frank Hagan]

I've never been able to find a fully free, non-trial version of AVG on GriSoft's site. They do have a 30-day trial offer for home users.

[ZYV]

Frank, please take a look at this page: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng...nti-virus-free . Hope that helps.

[AndyP]

I went to virustotal.com and out of the 31 anti-viruses that they use to scan files, 2 of them reported (neither being very reputable) the false positive.

[AndrewT]

Another user pointed this out yesterday and as far as I know it has been resolved and no more false positive(s) should display.

The most annoying part of this is that it was merely the format of a particular block of HTML/javascript code that was the problem. After spacing it out onto multiple lines it would not detect the false positive. Kinda makes you wonder how useful those particular antivirus programs are...