Why is a legitimate website detected by AVG?

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There are several possibilities how a clean and legitimate website may become infected:

  • Website was exploited by some hacktoolkit which searches for vulnerable websites, and automatically infects them.
  • Infection was inserted on the machine that is used to create/upload websites, which means that the author's/administrator's computer is infected.
  • An attacker gained direct access to the website administration thanks to a weak or stolen access password.

We recommend to contact the administrator of such website.

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