url Malware Scanning

[Hlafordlaes]

Hi,

On a professional job board, the moderator of a group discussion booted me from the group stating that my board profile generated a malware flag in her scanner, and stated it was probably the profile picture.

I have scanned the url of my profile with several online scanners; right-clicked, downloaded, and scanned the profile picture (clean!); and checked the original file used for the picture upload (clean). Otherwise my profile is a simple html page generated by the job site, not me.

I confess I suspect the woman was getting miffed at the fact that my posts in "her" group were getting a lot of positive feedback, and suspect from her posting so far that she created the group to promote herself (lots of her threads consist of "see how I answered this issue" with a link to some blog comment on another site), but since the group title was interesting, many have joined and are politely ignoring her.

Anyway, I want to be 100% sure she is not right and be able to call her on it, perhaps complain to the job board.

Do you have an url scanner you swear by?

Thanks.

 

[tzdk]

I don't see the point if pic is hosted by "her" own server. Not your problem. But check away.

WOT: http://www.mywot.com/
Browserdefender: http://www.browserdefender.com/
Hphost: http://hosts-file.net/
Norton: http://safeweb.norton.com/
Mcafee: http://www.siteadvisor.com/
Fortinet: http://www.fortiguard.com/webfiltering/webfiltering.html#urllookup
Barracuda: http://www.barracudacentral.org/lookups
Opendns: http://www.opendns.com/community/domaintagging/

jpegs, gifs can contain malicious code I think. Pngs can not? If so upload in png format - or use other program to deal with your pic, from the original to upload. Is there any reason to believe program is not 100% malware free? If your jpeg really trigger scanner for a valid reason and you have no clue it must be program which inserts stuff into saved jpgs? Sounds interesting and highly unlikely but who knows.

Find out what tool she use to scan with.

 

[balloonshark]

I don't swear by them but you can try these two.

http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/default.asp

http://wepawet.iseclab.org/

The 2nd link is for Flash, JavaScript, and PDF files.

 

[Hlafordlaes]

A belated thanks for your answers.