Is vBulletin.com Infected by a virus ?
 

Hey!

When I visited vbulletin.com a few minutes back my antivirus was showing that vbulletin.com is infected with a virus and that I should avoid going to the site.

Any of you facing a similar problem ?

Edit: attachment is not clear see this link

Heres a screenshot:

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i guess theres some malware on your pc thats giving false report, scan your pc

I have scanned my PC and there is nothing here. And why is only vBulletin.com being shown as infected and not any of the other sites that I am visiting ?

The malware on your PC is likely Avast. Its identiofying the RSS feed as a virus. Generally most link skanners are bunk.

I have tried to reproduce this on a PC using FF and Avast (all up2date) and i did not get any warning.

Most likely local to your installation.

^^ same.

This is weird.

Its not detecting now for me also, but it was at the time I reported it. Maybe it was a false positive by avast or something was fixed at vBulletin.com.

Thanks for checking it out anyway.

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2</a>

Looks like sh*t in chrome.. -_-"

Heck all RSS's are plain text in chrome.

If a malicious link (as per the Avast database of malicious links) was posted, would it get picked up by RSS readers?

If so, it's more likely that this was a true positive, and the offending post was deleted by .com staff before anyone else's Avast was able to pick it up.

Oh you explained it better than i did. :erm:

That could also have been the case. But that would only count for a simple link (which the user would have to click first). It should not contain any embedded executable mallicious data, at least not executable while browsing the forums.