False malware warning

Afro just notified me that he received a malware warning while browsing the Pulp forums. After looking at the Google report (found here) it turns out that there was one link to a potential malware site int he past 90 days. However since I haven't noticed any bad links recently my guess is that it was caused by the ads. What ads, well if you turn off your ad-blocker and sign out you get Google Ad-sense ads so yeah, those ads.

Currently this message has only been seen on Google Chrome while other browsers claim the forums to be safe. My anti-virus does a lot but what it does not do is warn me about malware when I browse the forums and since I am using NOD I officially claim the site to be safe

tl;dr: false positive, site and forums are safe. Also Afro does not know how to make a screenshot.

lol afro --> ALT+PRT SCR

or in vista/win7 go to accesories>snipping tool

Or just print screen and paste in an image editor like I always do. 9/10 times I need to censor things so yeah :p

This happened to me as well while I was still logged into the forums. I clicked on one of the topics and chrome warned me.

Still didn't get the warning on Firefox 3.6, Firefox 4 beta1 nor IE8 (dont have any other browsers). Still, even if there is some link to malware somewhere I'm pretty sure it wont affect any of us. Pretty sure everyone here knows to use an anti-virus...

off-topic; THIS COFFEE MADE ME CUM!

Those of us that are awesome have a screenshot button on our keyboards.

It's got a camera logo on it!

lolmac

In french on my side, but this i what i see when i visit THIS TOPIC.... weird huh.. no other topics nor pages gave me the warning except this one,

WATCH OUT IT'S THE CYBERPOLICE, THEY'VE BACKTRACED US!!!!!!!

CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! WE DUN GOOFED!

I use chrome and never get this.
I win.

LieuTennet wrote:I use chrome and never get this.
I win.

I'm going to go ahead and say that's a lose because you have an insecure computer.

I get it elsewhere but, not on here. I'm not dumb I usually don't have viruses on my computer and I don't use active antivirus..

What I don't get is why Firefox doesn't show the page even though Firefox also the Google protection thing...

Update : It doesn't show up today -_-

Yeah, normally you can check if a page is on a malware list on http://www.1227.com and I don't see this site when searching.

I started using FF when i saw that. I like FF better anyways. FU CHROME FU!

Ok so let me clear up what is happening here. If you look at the source code for any page in our forum, you will see that ads are loaded in the background. But since we choose not to show them when you are logged in, they simply don't display. They still get loaded though. Chrome takes a look at any page that is loaded including the ads. If an ad tries to load an adware cookie that takes information from what sites you are on to show you ads more in tune with the type of browsing you do, chrome warns you calling it malware.

tl;dr: Ads get loaded. Chrome is warning you of the info the ads are keeping about you. No need to worry.

Am I the only one seeing the irony of Google warning that out forums are infected with malicious links which come from the ads THEY show?

hah indeed. can't believe they didn't exclude their own google adwords.

edit: i checked but i don't think these are adwords ads:

Eraserhead wrote:hah indeed. can't believe they didn't exclude their own google adwords.

edit: i checked but i don't think these are adwords ads:

they are a part of forumotion i believe.