It is not uncommon for the AVG Web Threats Research Group to receive comments from webmasters of compromised sites that are serving malicious content to their visitors, questioning whether the AVG detections on their sites are correct. They almost invariably are correct. The Web Threats team maintains the LinkScanner component and the team is justifiably […]
AVG Anti-Virus, a company headquartered not too many kilometers down the road from the AVAST main offices in Prague, promoted an interview with their community manager today on Facebook. Hoping to learn a thing or two, we curiously clicked on the link. To our surprise, avast! blocked it as a malicious URL. When we attempted […]
From the “It-could-happen-to-you” file: We innocently clicked on a link which was promoted today on a trustworthy company’s Facebook page. To our surprise, avast! blocked it as a malicious URL. When we attempted to open the URL, it was redirected to dumb.cn.mn which triggered the blocking action. The only content on dumb.cn.mm is one word […]
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