Third party False Positive by AV on Personal Details

[Xon]

I've had a couple of reports that the personal details editor for XF 1.5.3 triggers Avast Security to prevent access to it.

URL:https://forums.spacebattles.com/js/xenforo/personal_details_editor.js?_v=93dd4755|{gzip}
Infection:Other:Malware-gen [Trj]
Process:C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

I'm not actually sure how you report false positives to Advast and such, but this will affect other XF customers.

 

[Paul B]

We have had several reports of it.

It has been reported to Avast already.

It's something Avast need to resolve by updating their definitions.

 

[Mike]

The initial report we had related to the full size version, which I confirmed just contained the expected details. Unfortunately, not a lot we can do about it. I've found a few references to false positives with this check specifically, so it seems like their heuristics are off.

 

[Mike]

Oh, I just found this: https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php Might help get it sorted.