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Re: False positive mal/HTMLgen-a

As the top Google hit for "Mal/HTMLGen-A" I thought I'd chime in here.  Sophos users are reporting that they're getting this Mal/HTMLGen-A error for my site:

http://rogerborg.dnsd.me

Which I use solely as a repository for handy images that I link to in other web forums.  Thusly for "rogerborg.dnsd.me/hipster-hulk.jpg", which sums up my feelings about now.

hipster-hulk.jpg

There's also a trivial (single <img>) index.html page, and a robots.txt that denies all.

This is all that the Sophos threat library has to say about this issue:

"Mal/HTMLGen-A is the threat name associated with web pages that have been classified as malicious by SophosLabs.

Web pages blocked by Sophos products as Mal/HTMLGen-A are likely to be used in an infection chain used to infect users with malware"

So it doesn't imply or even suggest any actual infection, it just means that Sophos doesn't much like the look of this site.  Is it because the domain is hosted on a dynamic IP?  The index.html is too simple?  There's a deny robots.txt?  I don't know, and I and the end usesr have no way of knowing.  Telling them that it's infected is deceitful, unhelpful, and alarming.

Poor show, chaps.  Poor show.

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  • Hi,

    I just got a static IP address of the provider for the application I host on the web. As soon as I released the application on this address, users who use Sophos as we began to occur with this problem.

    High Risk Website Blocked

         Location: 77.78.197.50
         Access has been blocked as the threat Mal / HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.
         Return to the page you were previously viewing.

    Is there anything I can do?

    Thanks

    :49892
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  • Hi,

    I just got a static IP address of the provider for the application I host on the web. As soon as I released the application on this address, users who use Sophos as we began to occur with this problem.

    High Risk Website Blocked

         Location: 77.78.197.50
         Access has been blocked as the threat Mal / HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.
         Return to the page you were previously viewing.

    Is there anything I can do?

    Thanks

    :49892
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