The requested object is infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar – false alarm by Kaspersky Lab products on some Google web pages

Sean — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:26:38 +0000

Kaspersky is reporting that it’s AntiVirus solution is flagging Google Adsense ads as being infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar but which in fact are false-positives. The error message looks like this “The requested object is infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar”

Here’s what they have to say about the mater:
“Kaspersky Lab acknowledges a false positive returned by its products for a number of Internet resources with Google contextual advertising.

An incorrect signature was added to the company’s antivirus databases on 25 January at 07:00 Moscow time (GMT+3). As a result, Kaspersky Lab products erroneously blocked some legitimate websites containing the link on script http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js, which is used in the contextual advertising system Google AdSense. When users visited an affected web resource, a message was displayed stating that the page contained the malicious program Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar.”

Links:
http://support.kaspersky.com/kis2010/error?qid=208281219
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Kaspersky-Says-Google-Spreads-Malware-but-Trojan-JS-Redirector-ar-Is-a-False-Positive-133118.shtml

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The requested object is infected with the virus Trojan.JS.Redirector.ar – false alarm by Kaspersky Lab products on some Google web pages