[Search wiki] HEUR/HTML.Malware [Was: virus ? and some questions]

Balinny balinny at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 21:51:13 UTC 2008


Rainer Blome wrote:
> Simone Search wrote:
>   
>> 1. If I  open new mini article from ..wiki/special:createpage    my computer reacts with 
>> HEUR/HTML.Malware is there s.o. who could explain?
>>     
>
> That is apparently your antivirus program reacting.
> My virus scanner issues the same complaint.
> Googling for "HEUR/HTML.Malware" and the name of my virus scanner 
> immediately yields a description of this detection type.
> Probably a false positive, but you need to check this.
>
> When I look at that file, it is a huge, 162 KB script, apparently a 
> concatenation of multiple individual JavaScript files.
> Looks like it is a WYSIWYG editor in JavaScript.

Those heuristics tend to catch any compressed/packed javascript.


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