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Subject: Reported Attack site
Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 09:13
I know that some of you have been blocked from one or more rotoguru domains because it has been reported as an attack site. This will probably happen if you are using either Firefox or Chrome as your browser. I don't know if other browsers are impacted or not.
I have not been able to figure out where, if at all, any attack has taken place. The limited diagnostics I have seen don't seem to relate to this domain - but I am still trying to figure it all out.
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| 1 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 11:03
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I still haven't been able to find any "attack" code on the site. My best guess is that something may have been posted somewhere in some thread - but I can't find anything in the more recent posts that looks bad..
The warning message that some of you are seeing (I'm getting it, too) makes reference to toolbarinc.com. That's not a domain that I am familiar with (sounds like a toolbar installation site), and a search through most of the forums has not found any mention of that domain.
I have requested a site review through Google webmaster tools. Hopefully, that will identify if and where the problematic code exists. I have no idea when that review will be done.
In the meantime, it's up to you if you want to turn off your browser's blocking of reported attack sites. If there is something somewhere, hopefully it will be identified so I can flush it.
Ugh.
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| 2 | Great One
ID: 17214310
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 11:14
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Guru, check the regular Dirty Dozen baseball thread. It was trying to force me to download some file when I went into it earlier.
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| 3 | Boldwin
ID: 1025937
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 13:05
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The notice itself says the incident happened more than 90 days ago.
Posters can temporarily disable this annoying situation by unchecking the 'block reported attack sites' from the security page in the options. Follow tools/options/security.
But if you do, practice careful browsing until you recheck the box.
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| 4 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 13:14
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I think I found the offending page. It was not on the forum - and I have no idea how that page was changed. That's a bit troubling to me.
So I have removed the identified problem - but do not know how quickly Google will remove the "attack" designation.
GO - I did check that thread you referenced, and removed one post (the one that copied the spam email), but I don't think that was the problem. Nonetheless, it's probably a good thread to avoid.
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| 5 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 13:55
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Response from Google:Status of the latest badware review for this site: A review for this site has finished. The site was found clean. The badware warnings from web search are being removed. Please note that it can take some time for this change to propagate.
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| 6 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 15:46
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Attack site designation seems to be gone now - at least for me.
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| 7 | Perm Dude
ID: 22240315
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 16:40
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Good for me as well.
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| 8 | Boldwin
ID: 21227318
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 19:27
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Good after I rebooted.
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| 9 | GoatLocker
Leader
ID: 060151121
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 21:54
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Everything looks good for me know also.
I had just shifted to IE earlier in the day until things got cleared up.
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| 10 | weykool
ID: 4025611
Thu, Mar 03, 2011, 22:30
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So someone sent copies of the political threads to Google?
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