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Old May 6th, 2007, 06:15 PM
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Default SA- Ashampoo site has browser exploit?

I recently tried to go to the Ashampoo site but McAfee's Site Advisor would not allow access. There was a warning that said-

"Browser exploit:
Breached browser security

When we browsed this site, it made unauthorized changes to our test PC."

Is this a false positive with SA? Have there been other security programs with similar warnings?

McAfee defines an exploit as follows-
"Exploits are rare but extremely dangerous security threats caused by a Web site "exploiting" a browser's security vulnerability. The exploit can cause the user's computer to receive programming code which can cause adware infections, keystroke spying, and other malicious actions which can leave a computer essentially unusable."
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Old May 6th, 2007, 09:49 PM
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Default Re: SA- Ashampoo site has browser exploit?

[quote=acr1965]I recently tried to go to the Ashampoo site but McAfee's Site Advisor would not allow access. There was a warning that said-

"Browser exploit:
Breached browser security

When we browsed this site, it made unauthorized changes to our test PC."

Is this a false positive with SA? Have there been other security programs with similar warnings?
QUOTE]

I don't think it's a FP, even though AShampoo does not appear to be on the Rogue list - that may be - YET.

I would be giving it a wide berth because SA is definite re. it's RED warning
signal - many sites covered by SA get the RED warning, but I didn't see
that, " Breached Browser Security " flag before.
 

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