I have went to logon to my site today after installing yesterday and Avast Antivirus gives the following warning threats and has blocked me, what has caused this? How do I fix?
Hi,
This may happen when you save settings as many requests are made to for that file that is interpreted as a threat. You could try scanning WordPress’s files for viruses using other antiviruses to see if you get a warning like that again. If you still got warning of this type you should re-install WordPress and then check again.
Hope this helps!
Thanks
I have just re-installed wordpress. Same thing comes up again.
I activated the Twenty Fourteen theme and the problem didn’t happen.
I re-activated newsmagazine theme and the problem started happening again.
I also de-activated W3 Total Cache settings and re-enabled, tried enabling minify aswell to check and warnings flashing up saying minify is infected to.
I ran securi scans, exploit scanner and all coming back with no problems found.
Avast often has false positives; which is why we don’t use it anymore. And, we had two machines infected while running their most expensive platform. We switched to Malwarebytes Anti-malware Premium, along with the builtin security on Windows 7 and have zero problems and it only catches “real” threats.
Note the big button “upgrade now” .. funny how they discovered something which wants to sell you an upgrade?
If you ran other anti-virus scans and threat checkers, and got nothing that should tell you something.
We’ve been using this theme a year, manage our own server, and have ZERO security issues.
THERE IS a known cross-site scripting flaw in WordPress 3.9 (prior to 4.0), which you should have already addressed by clean install. Some third party plugins can also become corrupted. We had that happen to one of our sites recently, where ironically fast secure contact form, was in fact not secure (!).
Point being, I don’t personally trust Avast on this kind of thing.
