What you're seeing basically is Avast not approving of a quantserve link.
It's, from what I have seen- a tracking thing that helps companies find people to target with their advertisements- though I could see how someone might use it to spread malicious viruses and malware. ( according to this- http://www.guardian....-web-monitoring )
What I did is I copied the whole link that it blocked into the 'site blocking' section in Additional Protection. Even if this quantserve gif isn't dangerous, it's better to be safe than sorry.
Look, the launcher displays the news page.
The news page is a web page from Tumblr.com
The Tumblr page includes a "web beacon" from quantserve.com.
Thousands of sites do this, while I don't like web bugs, they are considered a legitimate part of the web.
The web beacon is just a tiny (~30 byte) gif image, that gets served up with thousands of different URLs. The specific URL used by any given request is the 'data' in the web bug that identifies what page got visited.
If some site got hacked, it is quantserve. It is theoretically possible for a malformed GIF file to cause a crash that allows someone to do something they shouldn't on your computer.
I suspect its a false positive, but there's no guarantees.
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Object: blablabla/pixel/p-19utqe8ngozbm.gif
Infection: URL:Mal
Process: C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe
it lists it as javaw.exe because i allocate more ram to my minecraft ;p if ur wondering....
is it just me who is getting this?
Should i Scan my PC?
Have you tried playing in the browser version? It's on Minecraft.net. Just login with your Premium Minecraft account.
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It's, from what I have seen- a tracking thing that helps companies find people to target with their advertisements- though I could see how someone might use it to spread malicious viruses and malware. ( according to this- http://www.guardian....-web-monitoring )
What I did is I copied the whole link that it blocked into the 'site blocking' section in Additional Protection. Even if this quantserve gif isn't dangerous, it's better to be safe than sorry.
The news page is a web page from Tumblr.com
The Tumblr page includes a "web beacon" from quantserve.com.
Thousands of sites do this, while I don't like web bugs, they are considered a legitimate part of the web.
The web beacon is just a tiny (~30 byte) gif image, that gets served up with thousands of different URLs. The specific URL used by any given request is the 'data' in the web bug that identifies what page got visited.
If some site got hacked, it is quantserve. It is theoretically possible for a malformed GIF file to cause a crash that allows someone to do something they shouldn't on your computer.
I suspect its a false positive, but there's no guarantees.