Attack Site??

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Am I the only one to get this warning?

http://www.stopbadware.org/firefox?hl=en-US&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fmforums.com

[LaRetta]

Nope, I'm getting it as well. I chose to ignore it; I hope that wasn't a mistake. :laugh2:

[Raybaudi]

I think that there is something from about 5 days.

IE closes inaspectatly the connection.

[bcooney]

Nope, you're not alone. Me, too.

[Fitch]

I got it too, when posting a reply. Had to turn off "Block attack sites" in Firefox.

[Ocean West]

Not sure what is going on - once google believes something your at their mercies to stop it. I have done everything on my end to *remedy* the issue even thought there are no malicious scripts running. - I have patched everything possible.

In safari you can turn off the Warn when visiting fraudulent website.

[El_Pablo]

Same problem under Firefox and Chrome.

[TheTominator]

This link provided by Firefox gives the following details.

Safe Browsing

Diagnostic page for fmforums.com

What is the current listing status for fmforums.com?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 1376 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 18 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-09-28, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-09-27.

Malicious software includes 1 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 5 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including pceriozc.com/, folermat.com/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including fmadvocate.com/.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS46173 (DWD).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, fmforums.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

[Ocean West]

were back in the good graces of Google - there shouldn't be any more malware issues.

[LaRetta]

Thank you for fixing it, Stephen, I had faith in you.

[Lee Smith]

I'm not sure it has been fixed, I just got the warning. :hair:

[Barbecue]

When this happens to a site, it's quite often because of malware hidden in a rotating advertisement, rather than an actual hijack of the site itself.

Malware distributors hijack a legitimate advertiser's system, or even purchase actual ads themselves, and then use these to distribute malware. Usually it's a Flash ad that exploits one of the gaping security holes that have been found in Adobe Flash over the past few months, though it can also use Javascript to open a hidden frame that opens a malicious PDF file.

This can and will happen to pretty much any site that has advertising. Ironically, these malware ads are sometimes published by Google themselves.

[Ocean West]

We run our own ad server for our rotating banners in the header - we did apply all the patches and reviewed each banner but there must be some exploit that is still eluding us - will be turning it off for now and will reinstall from scratch that ad server install -

sorry for the inconvenience.