Google Chrome showing forum as Malware

[Jazz P Bass]

but at least the java script thing is gone, and the site is loading much faster now. It used to take a long time to post, but now it's in the blink of an eye.

I noticed that too!
A tad slooow.
Reminded me of my old 500Mhz with dial up.
It is slick now.
Go Tboy, Go

[Joe Gwinn]

I turned off the notice in Safari, but at least the java script thing is gone, and the site is loading much faster now. It used to take a long time to post, but now it's in the blink of an eye.

And I did nothing, but now the notice is gone.

[David King]

I'm still getting the notice in safari 6.0.2 for mac
If it can be turned off that would be handy...

[David Schwab]

I'm still getting the notice in safari 6.0.2 for mac
If it can be turned off that would be handy...

Go to preferences, and then to Security. Uncheck the box.

[ken]

Just logged on and was blocked by Firefox, because MEF is being marked as an attack site again.
Here is the advisory that has been posted:
Firefox Website Warning | StopBadware
Anyway, stop badware is an organization to keep viruses, etc, off the internet. They will advise you for free.
According to this, Google has marked this MEF as an attack site.

However if you are equipped with adblock, antivirus that is updated, you should not worry all that much.
I am checking my security log, and there is no indication that MEF is an attack site, when I have used it.
Any attempted attack is logged, and there is no recent record of any malware attack from using MEF in my system.
Therefore, I remain skeptical that MEF contains malware at this time...

I just got this same reception when I tried to enter here.

Call me paranoid, but why does this happen every couple of months or so?

ken

[g1]

why does this happen every couple of months or so?

Bottom line is it is basically because this is a free site. Tboy relies on donations to keep it up and running but the donations don't keep up with the costs. So he has to run ads to generate some revenue. The ads are were the malware comes in. The ads are targeted to the individual users. This is why some people get warnings from their anti-virus software while other people have no issues.
The only solution I can see is charging for memberships or having yearly donation drives ala PBS. Then he could dump the ads without having to pay for the forum out of his own pocket.

[SonnyW]

So far I haven't had another malware warning all day. I'm running Windows 7 and Firefox 17, also tried it on IE8, and no warnings. I have Norton Internet Security running, and McAfeee security scan plus.

[Joe Gwinn]

Call me paranoid, but why does this happen every couple of months or so?

Hmm. I never got any warnings until this week.

[David King]

David,
Thanks for the Safari prefs screenshot. I'd forgotten about that checkbox.
I don't quite understand how the malware gets detected. I don't think that's happening in the user's browser or server-side either. I think it's google's bots that pick it up and flag it to some central clearinghouse that then all the browsers can check.

There's a thread about this from 2011 I just read through. Chrome and firefox use one registry of haunted site and MS has their own.

Someone suggested clearing the browser cache to remove any trace of the bad juju and make everything behave a-ok. There's also a cache for Adobe flash as well if you want to get all anal about it.

[soundguruman]

I just got this same reception when I tried to enter here.

Call me paranoid, but why does this happen every couple of months or so?

ken

Yes it happens every couple months..
but I did not see why until now...

[David Schwab]

David,
Thanks for the Safari prefs screenshot. I'd forgotten about that checkbox.
I don't quite understand how the malware gets detected. I don't think that's happening in the user's browser or server-side either. I think it's google's bots that pick it up and flag it to some central clearinghouse that then all the browsers can check.

Yes, I think Safari is checking against a database of reported websites. They are probably using Google for that, or something similar.

[Jazz P Bass]

Here is good read on what Google is up to.
They have a webcrawler that is able to detect if it gets hit by something untoward.
Link: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/570

[David Schwab]

Here is good read on what Google is up to.
They have a webcrawler that is able to detect if it gets hit by something untoward.
Link: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/570

Ironic since the malware is coming from Google ads.

You think they would screen them first.

[David King]

That's what I was thinking too.

[Jazz P Bass]

Here is anther one .
The Chain Of Trust Initiative is explained.