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Possible Virus Alert 

My anti-virus is popping up with this one on every page on the site. Did a quick search of the forums and haven't seen anything so I thought I give a heads-up. I'm getting

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McAfee has automatically blocked and removed a potentially harmful .

About this 
Detected: Exploit-RealPlay (Virus)


LOL just noticed it deletes the word "scr1pt" and replaces it with a "b"



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RE: Possible Virus Alert 

Once upon a time...we had a malicious hack. News here. All fixed now, but many anti-virus programs do not update accurately.



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RE: Possible Virus Alert 

The exploit is something in a Google ad looks like.
95% of the time that's what it is when you get a pop-up here.
Annoying really as every time I did a follow up it showed to be something that's only harmful to PC's with 4 year old XP versions that never got updated and such.
In other words, a false positive.
Been getting so many of those with various suites off late I'm starting to disbelief them all, which of course is bad as they also catch lots of real viruses and exploits, or so I'm told.
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