Google reporting malware

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  1. Hugh Manetee

    Hugh Manetee Established Member

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    When I try to access the site through the safari browser or chrome I get this warning.
    Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!

    Suggestions:
    Return to the previous page and pick another result.
    Try another search to find what you're looking for.
    Or you can continue to http://www.co8.org/ at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.

    For more information about how to protect yourself from harmful software online, you can visit StopBadware.org.

    If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google's Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.
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  2. Oleg Ben Loleg

    Oleg Ben Loleg Established Member Supporter

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    Circle of eight Site is infected????

    :(When I just moved aroumd the Site I was warned that the site is infected and it might attack my system. Haven't had any problems with that on other sites. Can it be that there is any kind of attack on your site?
     
  3. Bob Corncob

    Bob Corncob Maverick Moon Miner

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    Re: Circle of eight Site is infected????

    I get a warning from Firefox, but when I check the details it basically says nothing was found. It did say the site was reported once in the past 90 days.
     
  4. sirchet

    sirchet Force for Goodness Moderator Supporter

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    Getting a Reported attack page

    When I navigate to Co8.org I keep getting a "Attack Page Warning.

    Also where the flash type adds usually are I have an "Attack Page Warning".

    Could someone add code to your address to give it a false positive and then redirect for a fix.

    I noticed the so called warning has a "fix" button.
     
  5. Taluntain

    Taluntain Established Member Administrator

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    Re: Circle of eight Site is infected????

    If you're using Firefox or Chrome, you've probably seen a warning about malware on the site today. What's actually happened is that one of the ads served by one of the advertising providers was apparently malicious. It's been taken out since then but the whole site's been flagged for it. I've put in a request with Google to take down the notices but it's probably going to take some time, unfortunately.

    So don't worry about using the site, this is just Google being extra careful.
     
  6. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Thanks Tal. I put up a notice about it.
     
  7. Ank

    Ank Established Member

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    My opera browser joined the party' it too gives a 'fraud warning'
    This rather unpleasant , while use older co8 member know this site to be harmless, the newcomers on the other hand may be discouraged from accessing the site again :( hopefully this mess gets sorted out quickly.
     
  8. sirchet

    sirchet Force for Goodness Moderator Supporter

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    Well, no report when I go here via my iPad.
     
  9. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Seems to have gone away now (for the Chrome at least).
     
  10. Taluntain

    Taluntain Established Member Administrator

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    It was lifted from the Codex too, so it should be good. But on my site it flagged one of the game trainers (doh...) as malicious and I can't request another review until later because one was done recently. Just awesome.
     
  11. Gaear

    Gaear Bastard Maestro Administrator

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    Really? That's kind of weird - I can go there just fine.
     
  12. General Ghoul

    General Ghoul Established Member

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    Still seeing the warnings in Firefox:
     

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  13. Taluntain

    Taluntain Established Member Administrator

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    Google's completely messed up. It doesn't even list any malware under Co8 and it still says it contains malicious content. Just unbelievable. I've put in a request to review the site again since they're not even reporting anything. This whole thing is apparently pretty much automated so nobody is responsible for anything... and if you fall pray to their half-assed filters, good luck getting out.
     
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