Anybody else getting "threat has been detected" warnings from their Internet Security

[Baitball Blogger]

when they're posting to DU?

This has never happened before. Is it possible I picked up a Trojan Horse when I opened a Catching Fire site and it's following me around the net?

[In_The_Wind]

1. My Yahoo account was hacked from Vietnam and Uruguay 2 weeks ago.

[HappyMe]

2. No.

But it sure as hell is running a bit slow for me.

[Ron Obvious]

3. What internet security software are you running?

I'm running Avast and I've seen that message from time to time, but never when connecting to DU or any other mainstream site.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Avast. And this is the first time it happened with DU.

Though I did connect with the hunger games website right before I signed onto DU and the HG website did download a rather lengthy Pdf file.

[Ron Obvious]

16. Could it have been from an ad?

I don't see those.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. I don't either.

[mockmonkey]

18. A picture in a post

There was a picture someone used in a post in the Lounge of a upside down dog and the website that hosted it caused the Avast to alert. Firefox has been slow on DU and other sites today and there was a Firefox update and now everything seems ok again.

[olddots]

4. Don't scare me

I get some little screen when I shut down this piece of shit that says something about an opened error or something .it may be the threat has been detected thing ---- I run a tight and paranoid ship ( computer ) maybe this is a real bug .

[Ptah]

5. I got a warning earlier for this image:

http: //www. dentaltoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/i017.jpg

I'm using the free Avast on Firefox.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I have the purchased version of Avast.

It seems to be an Avast issue.

[Ron Obvious]

8. Weird...

That link redirects to google search returns for me.

[Ptah]

9. I added some spaces to prevent it showing.

[In_The_Wind]

10. I removed Avast because it was locking my computers.

[Ptah]

11. What are you using?

[In_The_Wind]

12. Auslogics BoostSpeed

I run it once or twice a day on my 12 year old computer.
McAfee and Norton both drove me nuts!

[mockmonkey]

13. I did too

Using free Avast and Firefox and it seemed be the same link.

[riderinthestorm]

14. I am too. nt

[AnneD]

15. I got one.....

I know it came from DU as I only go to several sites. It was when I visited DU Education. It kept routing me to You Tube Education and our school blocks You tube ergo no DU for me for me. It kept routing everything I went to to You Tube. They had to come out and reboot everything.

Thanks Du

[TrogL]

19. Malwarebytes and Spambot search and destroy are your friends

[Honeycombe8]

20. No. nt

[Honeycombe8]

23. I just got one.

It was immediately after I clicked on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018362086

[Baitball Blogger]

24. I got it too. What is up with that?

[MiddleFingerMom]

21. No. (Norton Internet Security on IE)

[Honeycombe8]

26. Either you didn't run across something, or your Norton isn't working or updated.

The purpose of the warning is that...in my case...it blocked a virus.

[HarveyDarkey]

22. No, but then I don't use windoze

[Generic Brad]

25. Only when I pretend I am Ted Nugent

[Duer 157099]

27. Win 7?

There was an update on Tuesday that hosed some systems.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10956012