Why is my blog suddenly triggering AVG virus alerts?

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  bccmee · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:19 pm

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  My readers are suddenly getting AVG virus warnings on my blog as well as some other WordPress.Com blogs. Could you please look into this matter. I searched the forums and there is no resolution at this point.
  Blog url: http://fanvideos.wordpress.com/

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:49 pm

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  Hi there,

  As we look into this matter, could you please report this issue to AVG?

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  bccmee · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:07 pm

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  @christudzki: Okay I contacted AVG support and it was a nightmare! The guy barely spoke English and he said he couldn’t help me because I don’t use AVG myself. I tried to make myself understood that I have had messages from my readers that there is a virus alert on my blog and other WordPress.Com blogs and it is most likely a false positive. I persisted, but I’m not sure there will be any outcome until AVG customers start complaining about the issue.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:36 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.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 11:58 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

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  bccmee · Member · Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00 am

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  staff-blorbo: Thank you o great Happiness Engineer! You’ve made me very happy indeed.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 21, 2011 at 12:04 am

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  You’re welcome!