- Aug 6, 2014
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Article was originally in dutch, so sorry if there are any mistakes in my translation 
The AV-software from ESET gave this monday many false positives on various websites. Some commonly used javascripts were wrongly classified as trojans, while they were definitely not. In the meantime ESET already released new definitions that fix the problem.
During monday morning 29/2 , there were many messages from ESET detected by various users about advertising networks that would serve a trojan. Lots of big and popular sites were affected by the problem. It turned out to be a false positive by ESET, report the Antivirus maker themselve now on their website: Multiple JS/ScrInject.B and HTML/Refresh.BC false positive threat information—ESET Knowledgebase.
The error was found in database version 13102 but they have already released an update of the virus definitions, where the issue is resolved. Users who have already updated might not see the false positive messages again, like the one in the picture here below:
The AV-software from ESET gave this monday many false positives on various websites. Some commonly used javascripts were wrongly classified as trojans, while they were definitely not. In the meantime ESET already released new definitions that fix the problem.
During monday morning 29/2 , there were many messages from ESET detected by various users about advertising networks that would serve a trojan. Lots of big and popular sites were affected by the problem. It turned out to be a false positive by ESET, report the Antivirus maker themselve now on their website: Multiple JS/ScrInject.B and HTML/Refresh.BC false positive threat information—ESET Knowledgebase.
The error was found in database version 13102 but they have already released an update of the virus definitions, where the issue is resolved. Users who have already updated might not see the false positive messages again, like the one in the picture here below:
