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AntiVir Detecting HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen Virus on WordPress

Jun 18, 2009    (Click to Rate!) Loading ... Loading ...

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Guys, if you are seeing something like this when you visit this site:

antivir-wordpress-infected.webpage.gen-virus-bad-detection

It’s OK — It looks like AntiVir (among other antivirus companies) have decided to detect remote iFrame references in webpages as a “virus” — unfortunately WordPress (like this site) and many of the WordPress plugins make use of iFrames to work.

A lot of people are noticing this on all sorts of WordPress sites (More #1, More #2). We seem to have picked up this behavior right after updating to WordPress 2.8 so that might be what is going on here.

We are looking into this…

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This post was written by:

Riyad Kalla - who has written 1725 posts on The “Break it Down” Blog.

"Ultimately I just want to provide a resource that folks find useful."

2 Comments For This Post

  1. Kipper Says:

    Firefox is suddenly telling me this is a “reported attack site”… though I’ve never had any issues in the past …

    Avast pops up with a warning about blocking traffic from a malicious address or somethin as well …

  2. Riyad Kalla Says:

    Kipper,

    Should be fixed now, had some plugin shenanigans going on. Manually cleaned everything out.

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