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

Thu, Jun 18, 2009 (Technology)

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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4 Responses to “AntiVir Detecting HTML/Infected.WebPage.Gen Virus on WordPress”

  1. Kipper Says:
    29. June 2009 at 3:19 am

    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 …

    Reply

  2. Kaiz Says:
    26. January 2010 at 8:15 am

    Hi. Any fix for this? I can no longer go to my dashboard because of this warning.

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    • Riyad Kalla Says:
      26. January 2010 at 12:54 pm

      Kaiz,

      In my case the warning was legit — the problem turned out to be hacked .php files on the server side that had external

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