Firefox marked the forum as an "Attack site" [RESOLVED]

[Edmond Stuart]

Does anybody understand this nonsense?

 

[Panda2]

Got same warning on FireFox running on Fedora...

I was right in the middle of 136 pages, reading about XMOS USB to I2S converter and when I clicked next page the screen went RED and I was like WTF

So, is this realy a treat to my computer while I am reading topic full of knowledge or what?
Best regards

EDIT: I noticed that pages took more time to load than before...

 

[kevinkr]

Seems we are somehow on the Google blacklist at the moment which means all Firefox and Chrome users are getting an alert. (Linux and Windows 7)

AVG (win only) does not report any issues.

 

[cihtog]

I got the same thing, both using Google to search for a topic, and also on a thread tab that I never closed, but just refreshed to show new replies.

It could be due to bad code in an ad, but my money is on some idiot reporting the whole site as part of a x-mas eve prank. Given the timing, it'll be the end of the week before they fix it.

 

[Jason]

Merry Christmas to you all

I'm on to this!

 

[Zero Cool]

THANKS JASON!!!!!

 

[NEO Dan]

Google has blacklisted the forum...

Gift of Christmas virus eh? WTF?

 

[prairiemystic]

It's kinda weird but just happened to me too in Firefox, which uses Google's blacklist. I'd guess an advertisement led to some malware.
You can see the "reasons" here:

Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for diyaudio.com
Firefox Website Warning | StopBadware

 

[Wavebourn]

It's from Google. May be their Webmasters Tools can get more info.

Weird when they blacklist the site without any diagnostic info.

 

[Jason]

Using the latest Firefox, and Chrome, I don't see any warnings come up. However, I have checked with Google Webmaster Tools and it looks like the problem stems from an image someone posted in a 2010 post.

The image was hosted from a remote site (img3.tinypic.xxxx - I have replaced the domain extension with xxxx), which has been hijacked recently. The thread (it was very short) has now been removed.

I'm going through the process of getting Google to re-scan.

 

[Wavebourn]

My own site once was reported as bad, after I inserted on a forum a nice picture of Atlantis hotel in Dubai. It turned out, all links to that site caused such reports. Conclusion: it is very dumb and disturbing feature that can cause loss of audience by innocent sites. Google is a great company, very innovative, but some features sucks.

 

[tauro0221]

I had the same message in Fox but using microsoft internet browser it is worked flowless. No proble.

 

[Jason]

Link removed, request for reconsideration submitted through Google Webmaster Tools. All we can do now is wait and hope they are working on Christmas day

 

[Jason]

This is obviously a big +1 for not allowing direct linking of images from 3rd party sites.

 

[Ian Finch]

Yes similar message here since 9.20 a.m. AEST. It was fine prior to this.

Hrrmph! even the Smilies address is blocked......

 

[danielwritesbac]

Firefox doing it too. Getting the red "Attack Site" notices at random, not on every page.

 

[Frank Berry]

More information here:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/forum-problems/226375-firefox-marked-forum-attack-site-new-post.html

 

[danielwritesbac]

An intel Atom powered PC reaches 100% CPU utilization while attempting to load diyaudio.com pages, and in some cases timing out due to stalling out. What recent change is making the pages more cpu intensive and/or lagging beyond TTL?

And then there's this:

EDIT: I noticed that pages took more time to load than before...

 

[Wavebourn]

This is obviously a big +1 for not allowing direct linking of images from 3rd party sites.

Very inconvenient, though. Better to use real operation systems instead of Windows that is targeted by such links.

 

[pinkmouse]

That won't stop the alerts though.