Reader of my complaining about "infection"
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A reader of my blog has let me know that he can no longer read my posts because his Anti Virus checker says my blog is infected with “HTML/ScrInject.B.Gen”, whatever that is.
One of the reasons I opted for a blog at WordPress.com is that I wouldn’t have to bother with security issues myself.I am thinking it’s probably a false alarm, but can anyone suggest the best reply I can send to my reader?
Or do I really need to check my latests posts for something that shouldn’t be there?
Could it be something that attached itself to a picture when I uploaded it to wordpress?Thank you kindly for any help
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’ll flag this for staff attention. It’s very doubtful it could be anything in an image file, but you never know.
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I have the same problem with my blog. Can’t access the wordpress.com page either.
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Mine are down as well. I’m sure you can see all the affected sites, but just wanted to chime in.
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I think I have seen problems like this in the past were someone was linking to another site that had a problem or had a picture that was hosted on another site that had an issue – the WordPress.COM site was clean but the picture site was not – do you have pictures or links to another site that could be an issue?
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Kim, yours (and my own) are perfectly accessible for me.
I’m thinking it’s just one or two AV proggies gone haywire, my AVG antivirus doesn’t generate any warning for either my own or your blog.
But….
a. I might be wrong, and
b. that doesn’t help you or my readers
It might help staff to identify the problem if you can mention which AV program you use.kind regards,
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I also remember once an ISP flagged all of WP.com’s image servers as malicious for some reason. It got corrected fast.
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Wow. I’m reading this thread because I use ESET Nod32 antivirus 5 and, as I was just looking over my blog about an hour ago, it kept telling me it was blocking something gaining access through my blog. I only post pictures that I upload from my hard drive, and the few links I do have in my posts earlier this morning are clean.
When I tried to go to Support to see if anyone else was having the problem, I got the white “this page cannot load” page. The same with wordpress.com.
Things seem to be back to normal now, but I don’t know… I haven’t seen the ESET popup alert for a while now, whereas it was going off like crazy whenever I closed my blog and opened it back up to test things.
Very glad this thread is here!
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I don’t link to outside photos either. I use eset 4. I can access my blogs now too. but this stuff always leaves me feeling uneasy about security on my computer. sigh.
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From a forum thread on an ESET support site I get the impression it’s a problem on the side of ESET, which allegedly should be fixed after users of the ESET AV software download an update (released today) and reboot their compu.
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I am not a user of ESET myself, but another WordPress.com user who wrote in about the same problem did fix it by updating, and I assume rebooting was part of the update procedure.
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The problem has stopped but I think it must have been at wordpress because I didn’t have to update my eset in any way.
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In this case, it wasn’t on our end. It was a false-positive through ESET. It is possible that you may have auto-update set, so you received updated definitions without having to take any action.
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