Blocked Access to a Malicious website

[MattAwfl]

Hello,

since days I am seeing a pop-up saying the Malwarebytes (Pro) has blocked access to a malicious website.

I have scanned my machine several times with Malwarebytes and Norton Internet Security, emptied browser cache and temporary files, but although some files have been removed, the message remains.

Please let me know how I can proceed.

Thanks!

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attach.txt

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[MattAwfl]

Thanks, Mr Charlie.Please find the report attached.

RKreport1_S_05262013_02d1808.txt

[MrCharlie]

Lets run some scans:

Download Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit from HERE

• Unzip the contents to a folder in a convenient location.
  
• Open the folder where the contents were unzipped and run mbar.exe
  
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[MattAwfl]

I run this scan without any malware being found.

Got suspicious about my Firefox/Waterfox/PaleMoon browser addons, so I disable all and enabled them one by one:

It seems that the Seo Toolbar from seobook.com is causing this. I had no warnings appear until I switched that one on.

I will play with it during the day and let you know.

Would be quite a disaster if a well known plugin got tampered with.

Thanks!

[MattAwfl]

Hi,

it is definitely that add-on. Now: this IP address seems to relate to a SEO provider's API. Can it be that this is a false positive?

Thx!

[MrCharlie]

How are we doing??

Do you still need help or can I close this post??

MrC

[MattAwfl]

Hi Charlie,

regarding my computer, it seems that it is not infected.

SEMrush denies having malicious code on their server...

But since we don't know whether the warning is a false positive or whether there is actually some malware on the SEMrush server - I am going to disable the malicious website pop - up.

According to your experience are those things being resolved? Are false positives being identified and removed regularly?

Thanks for your help!

[MrCharlie]

You may want to read this:

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=20806

MrC

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