A malware alert left hundreds of Bank of America customers panicking

Hundreds of Bank of America customers had trouble accessing their bank accounts yesterday due to Avast and AVG antivirus engines flagging the site as “malware.”

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According to reports, hundreds of Bank of America customers had trouble accessing their bank accounts yesterday due to Avast and AVG antivirus engines flagging the site as “malware.”

Naturally, seeing a virus alert when visiting their banking website would worry any customer.

“I’m using Home Banking site for Bank of America. When I try to log in I get: HTML:PhishingBank-COV [Phish] virus warning… Bank of America says everything is fine on their end and that it is an error with Avast,” stated a Reddit user.

Avast flagging Bank of America website as infected with phishing malware (via Astra Security)

A spokesperson at cybersecurity malware and threat monitoring company, Astra Security told SecurityReport.com, “We’ve received hundreds of hits on our system monitoring infections. And we spoke to multiple Bank of America customers about this who were concerned.”