Advice Request G-Data detecting trojan on the AVG website?

[nsm0220]

What happen to the AVG website because G-data found a Trojan on the site.

 

[bulamber]

the AVG website is clean

 

[Jack]

What happen to the AVG website because site G-data found a Trojan on the site.

The virustotal.com scan shows the main page being malware-free: Scan report for http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage at 2017-04-29 05:58:20 UTC - VirusTotal
On which page are you seeing an alert from G-Data?

the AVG website is clean

Yes, most likely this is a false positive.

 

[Parsh]

What do you mean by "site GData found..."?
Scan report for http://www.avg.com/in-en/homepage at 2017-04-29 06:06:25 UTC - VirusTotal
Do you mean the Web Shield alerted of some malware (or PUP/adware) when visiting the site?
It can be an alert regarding some other domain your browser is connected to simultaneously or some Ad maybe..
Was the page blocked in the browser or it was a popup alert from the AV?
Why don't you share a screenshot of the alert or log for us to get an idea.

 

[frogboy]

As far as I can tell the site is clean.

 

[tonibalas]

Eset doesn't give me a pop up for the website.
Maybe a pup as @Parsh said

 

[Ink]

What happen to the AVG website because G-data found a Trojan on the site.

Check your Quarantine and see if you can post the details here, and notify on Avast's AVG sub-forums.

 

[nsm0220]

What ever it was it looks they clean up now and it blocked by the web blocker so it don't make a log of it.However it was one of those scripting trojans.

 

[jamescv7]

One of the possible culprit is the content that may link to third party (advertisement), although very unusual for any Antivirus website thus false positive.

 

[nsm0220]

One of the possible culprit is the content that may link to third party (advertisement), although very unusual for any Antivirus website thus false positive.

It was marked red by WOT for the link at the time,so i don't know if was hijacked or it was a fake AVG website,the link was on Wikipedia AVG entry.

 

[Ink]

In that case, then it very well may be that you did not visit the official AVG website.

Example shown below:

References from Wikipedia directs the user to the source from said information.
AVG Technologies - Wikipedia

21. URL is Flagged by WOT and hpHosts according to spyware-fix.net safe ? Check it with URLVoid

Screenshot


Next time I recommend that you check the URL from the status bar of your browser, which is usually an indicator to the site you'll be visiting.

 

[nsm0220]

In that case, then it very well may be that you did not visit the official AVG website.

Example shown below:

References from Wikipedia directs the user to the source from said information.
AVG Technologies - Wikipedia
View attachment 148173

21. URL is Flagged by WOT and hpHosts according to spyware-fix.net safe ? Check it with URLVoid

Screenshot
View attachment 148174

Next time I recommend that you check the URL from the status bar of your browser, which is usually an indicator to the site you'll be visiting.

It was marked red and i wondering did Avast left AVG for dead?

 

[Deleted member 178]

It was marked red by WOT for the link at the time,so i don't know if was hijacked or it was a fake AVG website,the link was on Wikipedia AVG entry.

WOT isn't a reference anymore and now many considered it as biased and untrustworthy.

 

[Winter Soldier]

WOT isn't a reference anymore and now many considered it as biased and untrustworthy.

Indeed, I removed WOT filter from Adguard

 

[WinXPert]

Site is clean. Nothing flagged by EAM.