I had something similar happen to me. It was when I went to post a response,,got a strange screen that said “Attack Page Detected” or something like that. Said Google was warning me based on MY setting preferences.
Hmmmm.
I am able to respond now, it seems. Haven’t yet hit the “post” button.
It isn’t your imagination and it isn’t your box. Same thing happened to me on two machines, both using Chrome, only when it was posting a comment. Scans by three AV vendors came up clean.
I’ve been getting the same thing on ‘advance search’ for a few days, just tried to find a recipe from a past thread and couldn’t get into it - malware warnings.
(using Chrome)
Straight coming in here on a favorite button or straight google, no problem...but start putting in search terms and it pops up....tried to research a topic a couple of days ago for a specific timeframe on a search, same thing.
I just got that warning when I tried to post on another thread.
Warning — visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:
Return to the previous page and pick another result.
Try another search to find what you’re looking for.
Or you can continue to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3341760/posts at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google’s Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.
For more information about how to protect yourself from harmful software online, you can visit StopBadware.org.
If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google’s Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google’s Webmaster Help Center.
Advisory provided by Google
The quickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog.....
I got the same warning. I’m using a mac with (don’t laugh) Snow Leopard and Safari.
I got the warning on a windows box with firefox at work, my linux box running firefox at home gives no such warning.
had this problem using google chrome on my laptop but no issues on my phone. Using aol no problems
Using google chrome on my Android phone.
No problem here.
Not fixed yet... I’m still getting this on Safari from an iPad
(Screen shot posted on Flickr)
https://flic.kr/p/A31HDN
when going to this Free Republic thread that is raising an alert on this very issue:
“Getting an attack for malware sign from Firefox on Free Republic”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3353489/posts
I got it this afternoon for the Rush thread, when all others were fine. Then later this afternoon for the thread about it, when all others were fine.
Your thread, at least so far, is coming through just fine.
Got it again right now after posting.
Here was google’s “further info”:
Current status:
Dangerous
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news is not safe to visit right now.
Site Safety Details
Some pages on this website install malware on visitors’ computers.
Testing details
We last updated our information about www.freerepublic.com/focus/news on October 27, 2015.
This website is hosted on 2 ASes:
AS2914 (NTT-COMMUNICATIONS-2914)
AS15169 (GOOGLE)
More information
Don’t panic. Users sometimes post bad content on websites that are normally safe. Safe Browsing will update the safety status once the webmaster has cleaned up the bad content.
Safety tips. If you want to know more about how to protect yourself from malware, visit the Google Safety Center.
Webmasters. If you are the owner of this website, the article “Webmasters help for hacked sites” explains how to clean up your website and request a review.
And getting this warning when going to the same thread using Chrome instead of Safari:
(Screen Shot hosted on Flickr)
https://flic.kr/p/znN1zD
I used Chrome for this reply. Lets see if it works....I get the warning. See if I can post on Internet Explorer...Yes, it works.
What is Google ?