Virus alert because of share buttons

pwood33 · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 12:43 pm
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Hi there,

I’m getting AVG virus alerts when I log into my site. It seems they’re due to the share buttons. I don’t really want to take away the share buttons, but I’m worried if AVG are giving me a virus alert, maybe Google will and deem my site dangerous.

Could you let me know if anyone else is having this issue?

Thanks

Pete

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isitthattime · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 1:58 pm
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I just tried to renew my fulltraffic campaign and they’ve rejected my blog saying it has a virus!! I have no idea what is going on, but this is serious.
reachingforconnection · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 3:49 pm
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Same problem! Surely there’s a fix here soon?
shamiamglam · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 4:20 pm
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The SAME THING keeps happening to me, as I navigate my blog… HELP!
whyayeman · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 4:45 pm
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The same problem with my blog. Have disabled the buttons for now
barbedwirebones · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 5:13 pm
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Well, at least I’m not alone. I’ve been reading online all morning about how to fix this issue. I’ve submitted a plea for assistance to WP Support as well. I suppose all I can do for now is disable my share buttons and wait for a reply. (sigh)
shamiamglam · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 5:38 pm
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Ok. I just did the same.
bccmee · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:19 pm
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I’m getting messages from my readers saying the same thing. My blog is triggering AVG virus alerts.
timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:23 pm
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Has anyone contacted AVG support? http://free.avg.com/ca-en/support
gas anyone contacted Staff? http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/
timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:24 pm
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edit: “gas ” was meant to be “Has”
bccmee · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:27 pm
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@timethief: I contacted WordPress support just a few minutes ago. I don’t use AVG so maybe someone who does can contact them.
timethief · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:33 pm
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Good going. We Volunteers do not have backend access to blogs and cannot apply any technical fixes. Only Staff have backend access to blogs.
bccmee · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:14 pm
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I contacted AVG tech support and it was not very helpful since I don’t use their products. Could someone with AVG contact them?
shamiamglam · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:21 pm
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I contacted AVG.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:33 pm
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As we look into this matter, could you please report this issue to AVG?
shamiamglam · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 9:03 pm
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I reported it to AVG. They didn’t give me an immediate remedy to the problem, so I guess we just have to stay tuned.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 9:06 pm
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There isn’t anything wrong on our end, so hopefully between us contact them and their customers contacting them, this may end soon.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 11:56 pm
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AVG has replied and it was definitely a false-positive on their end.

Users will need to update following this guide to remove the warning: http://www.avg.com/us-en/faq.num-3271
bccmee · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 11:58 pm
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@shamiamglam: Thanks for contacting AVG. I’m sure that helped!

staff-blorbo: Thanks for the update. I’ll pass that information on to my readers.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 21, 2011 at 12:02 am
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You’re welcome!

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