You CAN go to South Africa in Mafia Wars

Notice of a possible infection – which is really a false positive in AVG’s AV scanner –  in Zynga’s Mafia Wars game on Facebook has not only raised concern, it’s gone viral:

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http://www.areapal.com/social/news/United%20States/html%20framer%20virus

AVG’s answer:

ondraploteny wrote
Hi,

This looks like I have noted:
Please keep in mind that this false positive detection HTML/Framer is currently related only with mentioned files (www.google.com/recaptcha/api/js/recaptcha_ajax.js, BrowserCompAp.js), there still exists other websites (files), which really contain this type of infection.

Thank you
***************AVG Team

http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=98485#post_98485

Thanks Wendy

Tom Kelchner

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