Posted on 08/02/2025 6:21:07 AM PDT by Westbrook
Malware bytes just issued a warning that FR is harboring dangerous software.
What gives?
All I can add is that I ran Malwarebytes and all is well over here.
Garbage limp wristed shadow banning attempt by offended woke tech lefties at malwarebytes.
Sounds like that hacker is projecting. 😊
I don’t think it is Malware on the website itself. But I have noticed there is something funny happening. But I think it is sourced from the third party hosting server.
Far too many times page changes hang, and hang, and hang... And it seems like it is downloading way too much data for what an average FR page source and content would even have... Many many times it hangs so bad I have to exit off the domain and then come back again to even get it to load.
And when I look at the request stack it is way “too busy” for what it should be for these very light and minimal pages here. It warrants some investigation into what the 3rd party is adding to the FR experience. Their filters and security may be way too overzealous and unproductive. They don’t own it, you own it. And I have had to explain this many times to my own hosting providers over the years.
If you have Ubiquiti appliances- sure, If you really need enterprise class EDR that seems like a deal. Otherwise, just run opendns it’s free. And enable Microsoft Defender in Windows for the best cost effective combo.
There’s a few lefty apps that have us marked as potentially harmful but only because they hate us. I’ve ran into the same thing on a few of them.
I remember when McAfee was installing viruses to charge you to get rid of “their” virus...
About then is when I decided to experiment and run with zero virus protection. I never got another virus after that... The only thing I could figure was that a virus is designed to look for and identify what antivirus you have installed before it will execute because it needs to know what to work around. And if it can’t find any at all then it cannot continue execute.
I’m full stack Ubi. But I’m not sure I really do need it.
Most surfing is on Safari on iPhone/iPadOS. A little on Windows, Defender enabled.
It’s pretty inexpensive.
I wish they would be nice and port Safari to Linux... :)
Probably just reached critical mass of neocons. DEFCON 1!
By krypers.
Well, to get the most out of it and if you can afford it- get it. Make sure you stay up to date on your firmware.
Are you…logged on?
you get a domain blocked called herosofadventure.com????
I sure have its weird..
Yeah, I don’t auto update but I do stay current. Usually try to wait a week or three on updates, for all the obvious reasons. Unless it’s a screaming major security thing.
Sounds like an “ID10 T “ problem
If someone posts a comment with content or a link to a website (not FR) that MalwareBytes calls malicious, then it will bitch.
Feel free to ignore. You’re safe.
bump to post 13 for later reading
“If someone posts a comment with content or a link to a website (not FR) that MalwareBytes calls malicious, then it will bitch.”
That is true and a good point. Embedded images can do that because the browser is pre-reading the page source before the page renders. And it will kick a warning before the page renders if doesn’t like an image source.
Bkmk
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