Kaspersky blocks Infolinks – Trojan Activity
I’m using Kaspersky Internet Security, the infolinks text ad service worked fine till today, but I think there is some kind of problem in the server side of Infolinks, they have modifed their javascript today, that made Kaspersky to detect and categorize the Infolinks Javascript as a Trojan. From Webmaster side there is no remedy to the problem, until infolinks updates its Javascript from the abnormal Trojan like activity. I removed infolinks today because of the warning.
Here is the screenshot of Kaspersky Internet Security blocking Infolinks Javascript to load in the browser.
Infolinks Blocked by Kaspersky
Trojan Details:
- Trojan Downloader JS.Agent.ewi downloads malware into the victim site and then redirects the web-browser to the host page.
Resolved:
The problem in infolinks has been resolved this evening, below is the message of a chief person from Infolinks who responded to this issue
“It seems that Kaspersky has mistakenly identified a few characters in our
packed Javascript to be similar to a certain trojan virus. Our tech team
have made the required changes to avoid this mistake.
Just to be very clear about this: This was a mistake that has nothing to do
with Infolinks. Infolinks is not related to any virus, not affected by a
virus, and this mistake by Kaspersky seems to be behind us (it took just a
couple of hours).”
This is Shay from Infolinks.
Thanks for the concern. You can be sure we were very much alarmed as well.
It seems that Kaspersky has mistakenly identified a few characters in our
packed Javascript to be similar to a certain trojan virus. Our tech team
have made the required changes to avoid this mistake.
Just to be very clear about this: This was a mistake that has nothing to do
with Infolinks. Infolinks is not related to any virus, not affected by a
virus, and this mistake by Kaspersky seems to be behind us (it took just a
couple of hours).
If you see this again, or anything like this, please be sure to drop us an
urgent word…!
Thanks,
Shay
Infolinks.com
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Well, I guess your antivirus is making things complex. It is a trial version you are using, then may be ur antivirus is wrong.
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Not the trial version mate. Its officially confirmed by infolinks that their code has been blocked by Kaspersky.
I have checked that in infolinks and hope that everything goes well and infolinks will release the latest update of java script soon..
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The problem has now been fixed dude ., I started using infolinks again
Thats big and shld be resolved soon else people using kaspersky will find website to be harmful and never re-visit.
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Hi Ramkumar,
This is Shay from Infolinks.
Thanks for the concern. You can be sure we were very much alarmed as well.
It seems that Kaspersky has mistakenly identified a few characters in our packed Javascript to be similar to a certain trojan virus. Our tech team have made the required changes to avoid this mistake.
Just to be very clear about this: This was a mistake that has nothing to do with Infolinks. Infolinks is not related to any virus, not affected by a virus, and this mistake by Kaspersky seems to be behind us (it took just a couple of hours).
If you see this again, or anything like this, please be sure to drop us an urgent word…!
Thanks,
Shay
http://www.infolinks.com
Hi Shay, Thanks a lot for responding
Welcome to ByteChip
I am also using this soft few months back…i also find some error messages like this and i uninstalled that.
thanks for sharing useful info.
Welcome Shivaraj, I have been a Kaspersky User since past 2 years, this is the first time I had conflict with Infolinks.
Kaspersky is a good antivirus, there must be something wrong with that javascript. Good to know that it is fixed now
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Ya thats right , even i reckon the problem is with the scripting.
good to know that it is resolved, i got infolinks in a few of my blogs and its doing good too
Ya dude, Im using infolinks here also. Thanks to the infolinks team, they resolved it , in the same day.
Started using infolinks last week and it has generated some 6 cents till then. LOL. Guess, KasperSky is right
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6 cents? Dude let me tell you a secret. The better the CTR in Infolinks., the higher the pay is., I noticed it in the past 2 months of using Infolinks
6 cents a week? i make atleast $50+ a week on infolinks, but then on tech niche i doubt that it will make much…
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50 $$$ a week from infolinks., dude you got to teach me a lot