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Sites get tagged mostly because their ad servers have no scruples whatsoever about running ads containing malware. The adservers protest this vemhemently, but seem unable to detect such malware ads, though even freeware antivirus software has no problem detecting them. They might want to switch their domain, or at least switch their ad server. INE (In my Experience) Adgardener is one of the worst offenders.
Yah. My Trend Micro antivirus gives me a warning lately when I’ve gone there.
The warning is for “Mal_Hifrm”. My real-time scan grabs it and deletes it.
Use your Linux machine.
If you don’t have one, you can do a quick Ubuntu install on a $100 machine.
March 17, 2010Site Update: The Virus Warning Saga Continues...
Norton is still giving off a warning when people visit WZ. No other virus detection software is doing it. I'm at a loss, not sure what to do. I know it's either bogus completely or it's one of the few picture which with Java script in it (you would have to download it to your hard drive for it to be a problem, something nobody would do), either way it's still nothing to worry about.
Anyone have any suggestions? Email me or leave a comment (I'm not as computer savvy as you would expect)
The Norton Full Report lists the specific threats, almost all of which come from a single html file on the site. Here is one example:
Threat Name: Direct link to JS.Downloader
Location: http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/04/unreal-obama-proclaims-that-without-obamacare-the-us-would-have-gone-bankruptalso-says-forcing-chang.-BAD-html
I added the "-BAD-" to the URL of the problem page.
Might be a good idea to look at that page to see if Norton is correct.
Is it safe?Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it.
No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful.
If you want off my ping list get over it!
What about this concern, Liam?
We spent an entire week building a new site on Wordpress. We left ALL of the old data on Typepad. Basically we started from scratch. Norton may show a warning for a few more days but if you look at the threats they're posts on the old site.