So it isn't really a virus? This really startled me today when I turned on minecraft and my avast detected a virus. It wasn't doing it yesterday so can somebody give me an answer?
So it isn't really a virus? This really startled me today when I turned on minecraft and my avast detected a virus. It wasn't doing it yesterday so can somebody give me an answer?
Exceptionally rare as most modern browsers, and even webkit, will smell something funny when a url exceeds a certain length (the usual means of stack overflow attack)
it's not Tumbler, it's quantserve.com. Mojang is apparently using them to get a measure on how many people are playing/loading Minecraft at any given time. Which is fine and above board and all.. Avast on the other hand see's this as a "potential" tracking mal/spy-ware attempt and blocks it (just the image request is blocked, Minecraft will still play fine).
I guess none of you bothered to read the popup. It simply said that the gif came from an untrusted site or something. It's not that the gif was a virus, but that it came from quantserve.
Oh, but Avast does take the time to open their page, tell me I dodged a bullet, that it was a virus, and prompts me to buy full protection. All for a plain, old gif. So, I think most of this issue is overblown because they are just marketing their selves.
It was a tracking pixel which was detected as a false positive by Avast Antivirus. It was installed by quantserve. Unfortunately it was not from the Tumblr itself.
I get this also, are we being spied on by the Mojangsters?
short answer: no.
Slightly longer answer: Mojang or Tumbler (the news feed comes from Tumbler) appears to be using a web-service to get a measure about usage (what areas/time of day/etc). This does not include IP address or other PII (Personally Identifiable Information ).
It's not a virus.I found on Google that http://pixel.quantserve.com/ is web page like Google Analytics.Avast detects like malicious url because when you open minecraft the login screen is linked with http://pixel.quantserve.com/.So don't worry ignore this warning from avast!!!
The problem doesn't lie within Minecraft. Its a Java problem. Somewhere within the Java download was a virus. "the same kind of thing happened last month". What is happening is that who ever hacked the Java downloads linked the virus with minecraft. This way when you go to play minecraft it says that minecraft is the problem, not Java. This is what I've come up with by tracing where the file came from and when it was created. So its a Java thing. At least thats where the "virus" was downloaded from on my computer.
I EAT EM'!!!
No, it's not lol. Don't worry about it. c:
I EAT EM'!!!
Exceptionally rare as most modern browsers, and even webkit, will smell something funny when a url exceeds a certain length (the usual means of stack overflow attack)
Oh, but Avast does take the time to open their page, tell me I dodged a bullet, that it was a virus, and prompts me to buy full protection. All for a plain, old gif. So, I think most of this issue is overblown because they are just marketing their selves.
it's just avast being overprotective, it will be fixed soon im sure
dont believe me? http://forum.avast.c...?topic=114593.0
You can try using the AnjoCaido launcher.
short answer: no.
Slightly longer answer: Mojang or Tumbler (the news feed comes from Tumbler) appears to be using a web-service to get a measure about usage (what areas/time of day/etc). This does not include IP address or other PII (Personally Identifiable Information ).