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CSS CSS Layout Basics CSS Layout Project Creating and Styling the Layout Containers

Posted by Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points

malware after video ending? what?

After this video ended, my Avast antivirus program noticed me about blocking a malware on this page with name "api.segment.io/v1/p" and branded it as malware. This happened before on a different computer too on one of the videos of this course.

Should I be concerned, or is this just perhaps some weird avast behaviour?

3 Answers

Nathan Dalbec
Nathan Dalbec
17,111 Points
Nathan Dalbec
Nathan Dalbec
17,111 Points

I googled segment.io, it seems to just be a service to integrate user data into multiple third-party analytics providers. You can find their website at segment.com. I don't know why Avast would flag it, but it should be just fine. Perhaps you'd be interested in sharing what message Avast is giving you about Segment api call?

Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points
Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points

I don't see a way of reviewing past reports in Avast. I'll have to wait and see if I get the message again, and I'll screen-cap it. Eventually I will forward it further to Avast and teamtreehouse for further investigation if the problem occurs again.

Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points

http://imgur.com/a/XYIeK here is the screencap, it triggered now after I answered one of JavaScript Introduction quiz questions

Nathan Dalbec
Nathan Dalbec
17,111 Points
Nathan Dalbec
Nathan Dalbec
17,111 Points

After googling "VBS:Malware-gen", it seems that today Avast has been flooding people with false reports from random trustworthy services including Google, Twitch and Amazon. Avast must have made a mistake in their most recent change. Nothing to worry about.

Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points
Irek Zagan
Irek Zagan
3,889 Points

Ah, thank you very much. That clears off the confusion!