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[OrionsByte]

I get the same thing on Chrome:

For what it's worth, I clicked through and my virus protection software did not freak out, so I think it's safe and was probably triggered by a link someone posted. The information page says that the site is not hosting any malware, so that probably means the site itself is the the source of the problem.

Here's the link to the information page that Google sends me to when I click on the "Safe Browsing" link:

Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for www.thephotoforum.com

 

[Offhand]

The forum could have been hacked and the invasive code added. Just to note, virus software may not protect you in cases like this. Part of the reason is when a new trojan is released, it's designed to circumvent the latest updates on many of the major anti-virus software packages. There's a very short threshold when companies have to catch up and create a signature to detect it and deal with it. That's why your security software updates so frequently. So it may slip onto your computer where its actions may or may not be detected. The problem is that virus software has to notice the invasive actions before taking action. NAV and MacAfee do not monitor the data packs that flow back and forth and by then its already on your machine.

 

[OrionsByte]

This is happening again today, for me.

 

[Marc-Etienne]

This is happening again today, for me.

Same thing. Another trojan according to Google.

 

[ekool]

Just wanted to let you guys know that we've been unable to find ANY malicious code on the site but we have upgraded all the software to the latest version available.

We've also asked Google to remove the warnings and usually that takes about 24 hours. Thanks.

 

[OrionsByte]

You can get around it, in Firefox anyway, by doing this.............

For one thing I'm using Chrome, and obviously I'm on the site so I know how to get here. As was pointed out last time this came up though, disabling the warning (which is not what I did) is a really neat way to get your computer infected, because sure, we can be relatively sure TPF is safe, but now if you go to a site that really is dangerous, your browser won't tell you.

That's like having a fireman tell you, "Careful son, matches are dangerous," and then deciding that since you already knew that, you should just ignore all firemen from now on because you're tired of hearing that matches are dangerous, but you forget that there are lots of other things that a fireman might say that your life could depend on.

I love stupid analogies.

 

[Josh66]

Yeah, choosing to ignore warnings seems kinda dumb to me.

In this specific case, I don't really think there is any harm coming here - but I'm still not going to set my browser to ignore all warnings... I'm just using a different browser (Arora), only for the purpose of getting on TPF until this thing is cleared up.

 

[Sonoma]

You can get around it, in Firefox anyway, by doing this.............

For one thing I'm using Chrome, and obviously I'm on the site so I know how to get here. As was pointed out last time this came up though, disabling the warning (which is not what I did) is a really neat way to get your computer infected, because sure, we can be relatively sure TPF is safe, but now if you go to a site that really is dangerous, your browser won't tell you.

I love stupid analogies.

Yeah, choosing to ignore warnings seems kinda dumb to me.

In this specific case, I don't really think there is any harm coming here - but I'm still not going to set my browser to ignore all warnings... I'm just using a different browser (Arora), only for the purpose of getting on TPF until this thing is cleared up.

I guess I just assumed that everyone here was as intelligent as I!! I visit the same sites all the time and I even looked at the Google list and none of the sites that I visit are listed. I was also just informed by Admin that TPF is not infected, which I also assumed was the case, since they are probably far better protected than I.

Oh, and I also have virus and malware protection that runs all the time in the background and is updated every day!

I went ahead and deleted the post above so no one else tries that infects their computer.

I guess I'm not the only one, hey.

 

[OrionsByte]

I guess I'm not the only one, hey.

I wasn't picking on you specifically, but like I said it came up last time too, with many many people suggesting that you just turn off the warnings. This time around I guess it irked me a bit more than last time.

Sorry to make you the brunt of my frustration.

 

[Sonoma]

I guess I'm not the only one, hey.

I wasn't picking on you specifically, but like I said it came up last time too, with many many people suggesting that you just turn off the warnings. This time around I guess it irked me a bit more than last time.

Sorry to make you the brunt of my frustration.

Hey, I'm not upset. I jumped to conclusions also. I guess I should never assume anything; just trying to help not cause harm.

 

[Josh66]

I guess I just assumed that everyone here was as intelligent as I!! I visit the same sites all the time and I even looked at the Google list and none of the sites that I visit are listed. I was also just informed by Admin that TPF is not infected, which I also assumed was the case, since they are probably far better protected than I.

It's not that I'm worried about TPF - I pretty much know that there is nothing to worry about here. Doing what you described would disable the warnings for ALL sites though, not just TPF.

If there were a way to make it only ignore the warnings from TPF, I would do that. I haven't found a way to do that in Firefox though...

 

[Twisted_Pixel]

I'm not getting any warnings with Opera, will test a few more browsers though.

 

[Twisted_Pixel]

And nothing with Chrome or Firefox.

Those on pc worried, should run a scan with Malwarebytes, it's pretty good at sniffing things out.

 

[ottor]

Just logged on - no warnings.....

My dog just threw up, and I smell smoke, but .... .no warnings.


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[Josh66]

And nothing with Chrome or Firefox.

Those on pc worried, should run a scan with Malwarebytes, it's pretty good at sniffing things out.

I'm still getting it with Firefox on Linux - Ubuntu.

Nothing on Arora though.

(Not worried, it's just annoying...)