AB Malicious Site?

[rojash]

Google is telling me that every page on AB (except my profile) is a potential attack site.
It says that the site was checked today.

[China Doll]

Chuck says it's a false warning or something.... There's a post in suggs. http://www.theanswerb...s/Question938082.html

Nice avatar btw... sort of creepy but cool.

[cazzz1975]

excellent avatar china, I am literally jealous!

[China Doll]

Cheers caz... I actually thought Fluffy would be the one to get jealous over it! It was a fluke find but I think it's staying.

[ChuckFickens]

The only issues I could find are a few tracking cookies and the fact that this site might be hosted in the same IP range (i.e. by the same company" as some malicious sites.


If you are on firefox you can disable the warning in tools > options > security and take the tick out of block suspected attack sites.

[mccfluff]

with my @rse why would i be jealous.....

[cupid04]

hello china doll, are you wonderwoman?

[cazzz1975]

I only got one message, Im concerned now that my anti virus does not give a monkeys about me and my electronic health :/

[cupid04]

could a disgruntled ex aber who has ben banned be responsible?

[chelle7272]

I stopped getting messages about it a while ago in IE

[Answerprancer]

I wonder if it's anything to do with our "Handbag merchants".
They spammed us more than normal last night and I posted a (genuine) threat to report them to various online watchdogs - which I still intend to do, I have made a note of all the addresses they use.

[ummmm]

As soon as I opened this thread my computer switched off...

[cupid04]

bummer!!!!

[AB Editor]

Hello,

Just to inform you all, The AnswerBank is not having any malware issues and you should no longer receive any warnings.

Anyone using Firefox may receive a warning saying that we are a reported attack site, I assure you that we are not, and you should just click "ignore this warning" if you want to visit us.

Once again, I apologise that you are getting these warnings, but I can assure you that there are no problems on The AnswerBank.

Ed

[anotheoldgit]

I was just about to ask the same question regarding this 'Threat', but I see others are having the same problem. But thanks to Chuck I will do what he recommended.

The file name is: 212.117.161.31/js/

The threat name : exploit skype extras manager (type 1304)

Process Name : c:\program files/internet explorer\iexplore.exe
Process ID 5660

If all that means anything?

[anotheoldgit]

Thanks Chuck that has fixed it.

Should I put the tick back in when the problem has been sorted?

[Answerprancer]

Thanks for that info AOG - I just ran two scans on my equivalent Firefox location - but it turned out clear.