User in UK says he's getting a Mcafee Trojan Alert

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User in UK says he's getting a Mcafee Trojan Alert

when viewing my site...

akmac

9:07 pm on Nov 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

A user of my site called to say he's been getting a Trojan warning from his Mcafee for the last few weeks when he's visited our site. Said he's gotten it from separate computers in different areas.

I've taken a look at the home page source code, and don't see anything amiss.

I'm curious if this is an overzealous mcafee filter getting triggered,-and if so what I can do to change it, or if it is an actual problem with the site that I can't find.

Anyone use mcafee or had something similar happen?

balam

8:22 am on Nov 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Have you tried taking a look at what the McAfee SiteAdvisor [siteadvisor.com] has to say about your site? It may not be related, but... it's a response, at least!

akmac

8:49 pm on Nov 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the link Balam,

Didn't find any problems there. I'm wondering if it isn't a false positive on the UK version of their software or if my user's computer is infected with something else that might trigger the warning...

lucianp

9:17 pm on Nov 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

It might be the user computer infected.

MatthewHSE

3:16 am on Dec 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Said he's gotten it from separate computers in different areas.

Wondering...if my user's computer is infected with something else that might trigger the warning...

I could be wrong, but if either of the above is true, it seems to me the other is likely to be false.

akmac

9:20 pm on Dec 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

It ended up being his computer was infected-as were the computers of his immediate family. He called Mcaffee and apparently they directed him to an update which took care of the issue.

Whew...