This happens when I click on notifications that inform me of new comments on articles and authors that I am following. It could be a false alarm but please investigate and advise. My email address is sam.sawyer@gmail.com.
As of this about 3 PM Central time on July 16th my Symantec Endpoint Protection throws an alert each time I load a SA page that calls out the following malware: "pua.coinminer activity 5" - I've troubleshooted this on my end and it only occurs when visiting seekingalpha, I suggest you guys look into this.
Thanks,
Chris
samiamaustin you have Troj: JS:Downloader-FHY [Trj]
I noticed the last two days my Avast Ant-Virus has been giving me this
message quite often when I'm using Seeking Alpha:
We've safely aborted connection on sekingalpha.com because it was
infected with JS:Downloader-FHY (Trj)
Has anyone else had this problem?
Just got a message from AVG saying they aborted a connection with Seeking Alpha because it was infected with JS:Downloader-FHY[Trj]
Every time I try to open one of your e-mail notifications, as of this morning, I'm getting a virus alert from Avast, referencing the following virus "JS:Downloader-FHY (Trj). This has never happened before today.
Hi,
To provide some more transparency here. Avast & AVG (and possibly others) incorrectly identified a piece of our code as Malware. We have rectified this issue with them and you should no longer see this message. If you still see it, try closing your browser and re-opening Seeking Alpha.
To be clear, no malware, virus or data breach occurred here.
Please don't hesitate with any follow up questions.
Thanks,
Daniel
I am getting the same warning from Avast. Seems Seeking Alpha and Avast need to collaborate on this issue and get it fixed one way or the other. It seems Seeking Alpha owes the community an email that this issue is being experienced by some community members and that it is under investigation. Steve Rasher
