MalwareBytes Alert when view forum thread, false positive ?

[Majestic]

Earlier today I viewed a web page containing messages #5121 through #5136 in the "MVS Giveaway" thread in the MyVaporStore forum without a problem. Now when I review a page of messages #5121 through #5160 of the same thread I get a warning popup from MalwareBytes informing that it blocked a malicious out going connection to 109.163.226.78. I suspect that one of the messages in the #5137 to #5160 group has a bad link in it. I don't know if MalwareBytes is having a false positive or not, but thought best to report it. Thanks!

 

[Killjoy1]

It could be that you're getting the warning from content hotlinked from another site. I've encountered that before where the problem wasn't actually the forum (both on this forum and others), but instead was actually triggered by an avatar/signature/embedded image.

I'm not too familiar with malwarebytes, but if there's a way to view details about the warning you can (with most programs) see the url that is actually responsible for the warning

 

[oldsoldier]

getting the url that is responsible for the warning is the most important part of fixing the issue on this end.

 

[Majestic]

The only thing MalwareBytes is reporting in its log is the IP address I gave in my original post.

The problem seems to originate from a image posted in message #5144. It would be the center picture of a butterfly with a bunch of flowers. In enabling/disabling the MalwareBytes option to block offending websites causes the image to disappear/appear.

I did notice in viewing the page source that quite a few references to "AustraliaBound.org ip tracer" are made. I assume that this reference is normal since the same reference can be found on forum pages that MalwareBytes doesn't hit on.

 

[oldsoldier]

I deleted the post the links are to images that may (or may not) be associated with a host that has had Facebook malware hosted on it in the past.

Better safe than sorry.

 

[Majestic]

False positive or not the deletion took care of the malware warning. MalwareBytes is no longer detecting a problem with that thread. Thanks!