Avast! Fails Hardcore

[darkblysse]

Some people on my F-List (and me as well) have been getting pop-ups from Avast! Anti Virus while on LiveJournal and some other sites that are screaming at us about OMG TROJAN, VIRUS, RUN, RUNNNN FOR THE HILLS!

>>>>> No, it's not a virus.  Avast! fails and fucked up their newest update.<<<<<

You can ignore the pop-ups, which is... annoying.  Or use

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[wohdin]

I've not seen this.

Yet.

Though I have seen this dreadfully annoying html:iframe-inf "trojan" that pops up on very much not infected sites, at least in the old version of Avast... (my favorite example is on one of the official FF13 websites.) I recently updated to the new 5.0 and haven't seen it anymore.... at least not yet.

[rebukes]

Ahaa, ty, Blysse. I was wondering wtf was going on and I was like wow, LJ got hit >| I kept getting pop ups every fifteen seconds.

[sunsingergirl]

What is it I have? :/

*cracks up at the fact that I have to ask you what my spyware is*

[rebukes]

Erm, if you got the one I told you to get, then yeah, Avast. So don't freak if it yells at you on some LJ pages. Including this one and yours *amused...smacks Avast*

[sunsingergirl]

For some reason, it never actually dled, only I sat there for God knows how long watching it. *sigh* But Bob looked through my comp and found out I've got some obscure Yahoo thingy. So he says I'm good. XD

[sunsingergirl]

Wait, wait a minute. No, I don't have that, rofl. Bob looked it up and found out I've got some yahoo anti-spyware thingy. XD idk where that stuff Carrie linked me to went.

I'm so computer-illiterate it hurts, lmfao.

[aristastarfyr]

..... THANK YOU! I now no longer feel like an idiot. -=changes AIM message to something useful.=-

[sasoriza]

I love adblock ;_;

[darkblysse]

... I have AdBlock, but Hell if I know how to use it right, rofl.

[sasoriza]

Is it a firefox plugin? Adblock Plus is pretty easy :3

[darkblysse]

Yeah. But I've looked around and it doesn't seem to be blocking all of the pop-ups from Avast! for some people, since it's based on the computer itself and not FireFox. I'll stick with NoScript for now.