Posted: 8/1/2011 9:25 PM
Post subject: McAfee Heuristics picking up a "Virus"
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North_Bus
Joined: 10/14/2010
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Whenever I attempt to visit the "Discussion" section of a TAS, my local web filter's Heuristics detection (using McAfee) picks up a "virus" on viewtopic.php and calls it "Virus Name: MGW: Heuristic.BehavesLike.JS.Suspicious.A" I highly doubt that this is an actual instance of malware, but it does prevent me (and I am sure, others under similar filters) from viewing these sections of the TASVideos. I am unable to do anything about it, but I would really appreciate it if one of the admins could give McAfee a heads up about this and get this particular function whitelisted. Example site: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6221 (linked to from http://tasvideos.org/1747S.html) Thanks, --NorthBus
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Posted: 8/2/2011 7:52 AM
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Sir_VG
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Problem: You're using McAfee. Solution: Get something better. I highly recommend the program CommonSense™. :P
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Posted: 8/2/2011 9:07 AM
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xPi
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well, I found the bit of code that does it http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010868/tasvideos/bittwo.txt http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=0cece499d5dc1bb01efccf537548794f535c0bfc919956d9cea96f053f30a71c-1312275067
Posted: 8/2/2011 10:00 AM
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Sir_VG
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I find it funny that McAfee is the ONLY one to think it's suspicious. (Can you tell I think McAfee is a worthless program?)
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Posted: 8/2/2011 3:36 PM
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Derakon
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xPi: so, if the user is using a Mozilla-based browser that is not version 5 or 6, write out some vacuous HTML to force a spacer of some kind; otherwise just write out a space. Okay.
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Posted: 8/2/2011 4:25 PM
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North_Bus
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Sir VG wrote:
Problem: You're using McAfee.
If only I had the choice. I'm on a managed network, and the junkheap that is McAfee drops near-hourly memory error messages to my computer. ...the thing has yet to find a real virus, though.
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Posted: 8/3/2011 3:11 PM
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Sir_VG
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North Bus wrote:
Sir VG wrote:
Problem: You're using McAfee.
If only I had the choice. I'm on a managed network, and the junkheap that is McAfee drops near-hourly memory error messages to my computer. ...the thing has yet to find a real virus, though.
Yell at your tech manager, if you can. If you can't, well...here's a contact page for McAfee: http://home.mcafee.com/root/support.aspx
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