I get the same message..along "can't find site..retry.
It does it even if you go to another topic in the same group..
Winemaker1942

Yes. I am getting them too. Not cool.

Yes, Early this AM when I logged on my AVG picked it up, I can't remember the virus name and I sent it to the vault, but now I realize that it only comes up when I open Garden Web, and no other place. But I've repeatedly been getting more and more for the same virus and trying to send them all to the vault.

And it cake up again just now.

Mark, thanks for posting that so I know I'm not alone and I wonder what the heck is doing it.

Carolyn, who sees you also have AVG, but the virus I'm getting alerted about isn't the same as the one I see on your AVG alert. I'll see what happens when I preview this.

OK, the same alert came up with the same virus that was on yours. Maybe I was incorrectly remembering the one I had and for now I'm not going to pull it up and look at the virus vault. HAve you or anyone informed the GW folks here?

I received an email about this from one of the Winter Sowers, he too is getting the same message. I use Norton and Malwarebytes and am not getting the message.

My assumption is that its coming from one of the ads.

T

I posted, wanted to continue reading but every time I make a move the AVG alert comes up.

So I'm outta here until this problem is solved.

How about one of you computer savvy persons contacting admin at bottom of this firat page, b'c as most know I am NOT computer savvy.

Carolyn, Mark, you have my e-mail address, please e-mail me when this GW problem is fixed. Thanks so much.

the link to this post to GW techs so that they could see the screen capture of the AVG message.

T

PS...to contact GW all you need do is scroll to the bottom of any page and it the contact button. Choose a topic from the drop-down menu, type in your message and paste in the url of the page you're asking for help with. Type in the security code and hit enter.

Once upon a time Spike would always send a reply that he got the message, but new GW generally does not, however it often seems that they take care of problems faster.

I am getting the identical AVG alert on multiple Gardenweb forums.

TomNJ

I am getting the same thing. I think it is a problem with AVG. I was getting the same thing the other night every time I opened my email inbox. It is flagging temporary internet files as viruses. I have no idea why, but I think it is an AVG issue.

Donna

Check to see if your AVG was updated recently. It's probable a problem with an AVG update and a false positive. I had a problem with google and kapersky last year. It decided to block google for a day or so. I'd imagine a lot of people got upset over that one.

Hey Trudi,

This has been reported to our tech team. It appears that AVG software is picking up some coding in one of the ads and reporting it as a malicious threat. We don't feel this is an actual malware attack, but just a coding problem. It does not seem to be sending alerts on other virus software. I know that the alerts make it impossible to navigate the site and I apologize for the inconvenience, but this should be resolved shortly.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

With best regards,

Tamara

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So, hopefully, and sooner than later, this quirky code problem will be abated.

T

I reported it to Tamara this morning. In addition, I was getting "File Not Found" errors but a retry took me to the forum I was trying to reach.

Mike

That is a Java Script Redirect. It means that one of the ads is re-directing your browser to a known malware site. The best way to fix it is to get Firefox with Adblock and forget about the ads.

DarJones

I agree - Firefox leaves IE so far back in the dust it is unbelievable, no ads, no malware, no Java quirks, no pop-ups, no redirects, no problems. Honestly can't understand why anyone is still using IE by choice.

Dave

My screen said the last update was today at 9:33AM... the next scheduled update is at 5:43PM

It may now be fixed...

I just got it again with AVG. Had to sign out of FF and go back on to navigate. Also glad to see it's not just me. Hopefully it will be solved soon

I'm getting it.
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Someone posted about it on the free help forum at AVG and they have the same problem in GW's kitchen & bath forum and WeUseCoupons.com also! It's probably site-wide here at GW since I had the same problem in the Vegetables forum this morning.

I thought I had it fixed but rebooted and it's back again, even after setting Resident Shield to "Remove all threats automatically." I just now looked and "Remove all threats automatically" was UNCHECKED! It could have reset to the default after the tray icon crashed... maybe.

When I clicked the Preview button here to post this, the big virus message box no longer comes up but a smaller sliding box comes up near the tray (clock) saying "Threat Removed" and the details and then the box slides back down & disappears. This is the most unobtrusive setting to still be able to read messages and post here for now until "something gives" (or someone!)

It was said "The best way to fix it is to get Firefox with Adblock and forget about the ads. "

I have that and *do* have the problem.

Anyway, more info in the Computer Forum
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/comphelp/msg0713012931748.html?21

Advice is to wait 20 hours, then update AVG.

Here is a link that might be useful: see this discussion

Around 1am I set Resident Shield active and ''Remove all threats automatically.'' I downloaded an update and haven't had any popup virus messages yet. To check, ''reset'' the ''Threats detected and blocked'' to zero and load/reload/access any GW page; the counter should still say 0 on the Resident Shield page. In the list of infected files, you can empty threm and then check again later to insure the list is still empty.

Hope this helps.

So what do you all make of this?