It’s come to our attention that certain versions of Kaspersky antivirus are sounding false positives because of a particular javascript file, commonly used in many of our websites.
This problem is plaguing countless sites that use the popular thickbox.js Javascript file and has been reported to Kaspersky. If you receive this message you can ignore it. We perform regular audits files and have no indication of any infection.
One very important job of a conscientious webmaster is that of security and it entails a wide variety of tasks.
One of those tasks is too follow traffic patterns on client sites, watching for strange activity. Another is to make sure that all the software used for clients’ sites is up to date and to update as needed.
In an earlier post I discussed how being conscientious prevented a coordinated hack, perpetrated on tens of thousands of websites, from corrupting any of our client sites.
If you use Kaspersky and receive such a warning from your site or any of the DownRiver Groups affiliated sites, please contact us.
Our Recommendation For Anti-Virus Software
We’ve worked with many free, and paid, security software packages and for our money, the best, by far, is the Professional Anti-virus by Avast.
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That being said, I’ll tell you that the Avast anti-virus is the BEST we’ve used thus far and has saved us from countless hours of agony!
I’ll be back later with an updated post.
B.A.
