Avast reporting a malicious url when I open minecraft

[Funnelcakes]

I haven't got much from searching quantserve, but it seems like it's some kind of adware, but why is it coming up when I launch minecraft.exe? I've tried deleting and redownloading minecraft.exe, and it just comes up again.

[Ad Bot]

[Momentum]

look for the object and get rid of it

[Cookieman4276]

It happens to me as well.
I have tried deleting Minecraft, reinstalling it, running virus checks on it, etc.
Pretty weird stuff.

[Funnelcakes]

look for the object and get rid of it

what "object"? I've deleted Minecraft.exe and the folder it was in.

[dorkdotdan]

how can you have a malicious GIF?

[dkamm65]

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/299577210044547072

and

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/299577797930803200

[RagnaTheBroedge]

how can you have a malicious GIF?

you'd be surprised
images are code too, after all, i'm sure people have discussed this here before

just do a full virus scan, something somewhere is loving with your internet and inserting ads into everything, including the mc launcher's news feed

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/299577210044547072
and
https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/299577797930803200

oh

[dkamm65]

just do a full virus scan, something somewhere is loving with your internet and inserting ads into everything, including the mc launcher's news feed

nope

[Funnelcakes]

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/299577210044547072

and

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/299577797930803200

Thanks, dkamm