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**Puhbear69** · August 26th, 2015, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cuzzyman927

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Does Avast have an email/help contact? If so, I would recommend trying to contact them and advise them of the problem which you and others are experiencing. Who knows, they possibly may be unaware of the problem.

It seems impossible and difficult to believe that so many images are containing threats/viruses, so one would be inclined to believe that the problem must lie with Avast.

Yes, AVAST is having a forum. Tomorrow I will write this problem and ask. At that Forum are employee of AVAST also.

Once more: it isn't the *.JPG - picture which causes the problem, it is simple said the IMAGEBAM script software around this picture depiction.

a435843 · August 26th, 2015, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Puhbear69

Why does IMAGEBAM change their script to run into some trouble? This can't be only cookies ! I /We don't had such problems before.

At other picture services like IMAGVENUE or PIMP & HOST and some local Picture Hosts I don't having such problems at all.

I don't think Imagebam has changed their scripts, which I believe are ad-related. It seemed to be a change in Avast's definition files that are constantly updated, and for good reason, within all anti-virus products. Avast appears to be looking for raw strings of characters of JavaScript & HTML code, that they believe to be indicative of a virus. This raw string "match" which Avast found within an Imagebam page caused a virus warning to appear, even though it allowed the page to continue to load. I wish I had saved the offensive code, because I think one of the warnings was just for some HTML. Each warning (I received 3-4 warnings for each page) contained a snippet of code of around 20-50 characters in length. Not only was it technically bad to allow the jpg to load, it also neither allowed the user to tell Avast to ignore the problem or white list the code, nor did it allow the user to report this as a false positive.

So, Avast failed four times: warned on a false positive, allow the page to load under 3-4 separate pop-up warnings, didn't allow the user to ignore the error, and didn't allow the user to report a false positive.

So, I got rid of Avast, but I'll be watching for resolutions. However, this was a pretty bad failure on the part of Avast.

a435843 · August 26th, 2015, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by LadyLuck

There was a set of photos I found the other day hosted on Imagebam. When I tried to download them Avast blocked the site and gave me warnings. I wanted the pictures so I disabled Avast and downloaded them. Then after restarting Avast I ran Malware Bytes (on my previously clean machine) to remove... (wait for it)... the malware that Imagebam had dumped on my PC. Sounds like Avast was doing it's job if you ask me. I get very few false positives with Avast. Been using it for years and haven't gotten a single infection that wasn't a result of bypassing it.

The real problem is these garbage file hosts.

Can you give more details as to what MBAM found? Also, do you have an ad blocker add-on running?

This is so this malware can be cross-checked against the databases of all of the other anti-virus products, which have allowed Imagebam pages, so that the other products can add this to their database as well.

BTW, a full disabling is a very bad idea; you're better off just white listing certain sites within your AV product (though this has difficulties as well). Since you performed a full disable on Avast, it cannot be verified through a controlled test that your malware was added by Imagebam.

Biggerone · August 26th, 2015, 10:36 PM

Yes, thanks mates. Seems it might have been avasts update gave a false positive. Has worked well in the past. I turned the website monitor off and then on again and imagebam came up normal. I noted that others online same day said they had the same issues. Thanks all for input on this. It was bloody irritating indeed not accessing the site.

**Trip** · August 27th, 2015, 06:06 AM

IB fine tonight. No problemas.

**alex31** · August 27th, 2015, 09:26 AM

If I use a proxy server such as anonymouse avast don't report anything.

**Arturo2nd** · August 27th, 2015, 09:59 AM

I used Panda for many years and have always been very happy with it.

**Puhbear69** · August 27th, 2015, 01:43 PM

AVAST will investigate the problem from the source.

They will unblock the source temporarily in a few minutes.

**effCup** · August 27th, 2015, 03:41 PM

This issue is discussed in the last few pages of this thread.

Avast have acknowledged the problem (post by HonzaZ, reply #7) and are working on a fix.

**thedrifter** · August 27th, 2015, 07:10 PM

Thank you for reporting Puhbear69. So far I havent had any issues with Imagebam or Imgbox yet today.

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August 27th, 2015, 06:06 AM	#1495
Trip Senior Moderator Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: S.D.M.F. Posts: 7,784 Thanks: 31,176 Thanked 137,172 Times in 7,623 Posts	IB fine tonight. No problemas.

August 27th, 2015, 09:26 AM	#1496
alex31 Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 747 Thanks: 61,716 Thanked 15,644 Times in 696 Posts	If I use a proxy server such as anonymouse avast don't report anything.

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Arturo2nd Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Oakland, California, United States. I have a beautful view of the BART tracks and I-980 Posts: 8,955 Thanks: 103,061 Thanked 151,470 Times in 8,946 Posts	I used Panda for many years and have always been very happy with it.

August 27th, 2015, 03:41 PM	#1499
effCup *Vintage Idiot* Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: History Posts: 22,133 Thanks: 226,710 Thanked 356,731 Times in 21,628 Posts	This issue is discussed in the last few pages of this thread. Avast have acknowledged the problem (post by HonzaZ, reply #7) and are working on a fix.

August 27th, 2015, 07:10 PM	#1500
thedrifter Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 816 Thanks: 16,716 Thanked 8,442 Times in 809 Posts	Thank you for reporting Puhbear69. So far I havent had any issues with Imagebam or Imgbox yet today.