Kaspersky update slaps Trojan warning on Google Adsense

the register ^

[Gomez]

An update to Kaspersky's popular anti-virus software on Monday falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script.

As a result of the false alarm, Kaspersky users visiting sites in Google ad syndication network were falsely warned a site was infected with malicious Trojan-linked JavaScript. Network admins, swamped with inquiries, posted their experiences on a growing forum thread.

A Kaspersky Lab spokesman said it was aware of the Google Adsense problem, adding an update should be issued shortly. No further details were available at the time of going to press.

The Adsense cockup happened just hours after the bit.ly web address shortening service was wrongly added to Kaspersky's blocklist en masse as links to phishing sites. The Russian security firm said a fix for that problem would be published with its next malware definition update.

False positives still make for a well known shortcoming with anti-virus packages that affects just about every vendor from time to time. Flagging Windows systems files as potentially infected and shuffling them off to quarantine causes far more problems than if a false alarm happens to involve general applications.

Black-flagging such a widely used web application as Google Adsense arguably creates even more confusion, as the problem with dodgy Kaspersky Labs updates on Monday serves to illustrate.

[Gomez]

ping

[relictele]

Works for me

[DJ MacWoW]

Doesn’t Google wrongly list sites as infected because of political content that they don’t agree with?

[Blind Eye Jones]

I got Trojan warnings entering Freedom’s Lighthouse. (how you would get a horse into a lighthouse I’ll never know)

[Charles Martel]

Maybe it was a Trojan Rabbit...

[darth]

Question for Freeper Geeks: Kaspersky is a Russian company. What is the probability that it is spyware?

Of course, Windows and Google could be spyware too.

Advice?

[cajuncow]

I got 12 warnings in 5 minutes from Kaspersky early this morning when visiting 3 medical sites powered by google and in googlecommunity.com.

[Sporaticus]

I’ve got a 4 year old mid-high level Dell notebook.
The only application that creeps in size and runs slower over time to make the notebook sluggish is the ever present and working Kaspersky Internet Security and anti-virus. Kaspersky is good, I need it, but their 2010 app is less user friendly aside from the necessary bloat and churning(thats life on the internet).

[ShadowAce]

[The Comedian]

Maybe it was a Trojan Rabbit...

It's only a model.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[ZX12R]

I picked up a couple trojan viruses the end of last week somewhere. Tough ones to get rid of. This morning I picked up a google redirect virus. At this point, I think I am getting them from using google.

[cajuncow]

I’ve had a few try to come through while in yahoo mail especially in the last few months.

[ZX12R]

I’ve had a few try to come through while in yahoo mail especially in the last few months.

Well, they are always out there trying to get in. But these I've seen the last five days are new. Especially this google redirect. It doesn't take over your computer exactly, but when you do a google search and get a page of results, you click on one and it takes you somewhere else. If you go back and click again, then it goes to the right place. Was doing that the first time you click on any results.

I think this might be related to the spat between google and the Chinese. The hackers are probably unleashing hell on google.

[Hoodat]