Malware Alerts on Friends Page (not my journal!)

[rigel]

As I may have mentioned elsewhere, I have regularly been receiving alerts about possible links to malware on my friends page. Malware from [sweepstakes*and*contests*info(dot)com, asterisks added to not replicate the original address], to be specific. This time it appeared right at the top, and with a little finagling, I was able to see who has

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[rivenwanderer]

If you use Firefox or Chrome, do you use the AdBlock Plus extension? (Despite the name, it's free.) I would personally be suspicious about LJ ads rather than individual users...

[rigel]

I use it on my main browser (Chrome), yes. In fact, that's when I started getting the alerts!

I don't believe I see ads on my friends page. I have a permanent account, though.

[akiko]

Someone said they think it's my mood theme, which makes not a lick of sense to me, because I use the exact same theme on my dreamwidth, and nothing's coming up there as a warning.

But I plan to reupload my entire domain at some point. It's on my other computer, however; the one I don't use because it's from the first half of 2005.

[daproofpimp]

I clicked on your name to see if I could replicate the problem, and indeed I did. I got the following error message. In particular, note the "sweepstakesandcontestsinfo.com" listed as the host of the malware

[akiko]

And that's the same thing google safesearch has been telling me, except that it also says a half dozen other journals (to which I have no relation) have given the same warning.

That is to say, thanks for treating me like a child and talking down to me.

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[rigel]

Whoa. Hold on there.

I realize it must not have read to you this way, but I'm pretty sure daproofpimp was trying to help rather than treat you like a child. Not everyone would know to look at the diagnostic page for your journal; I certainly wouldn't. And I'm not a child. Mentioning a possible cause for a problem and a resource for learning more is not a value judgment about the potential source of said problem.

. . . and AFAIK, jut because half a dozen other journals unrelated to you have the same warning doesn't mean it isn't something. It could be a weird way a style is being interpreted. It could also mean that different people have stumbled on the same thing on the Internet which has caused it.

[oonh]

I have been seeing this too.

[antimony]

Nothing alerts me on davis_square but akiko's journal does throw one.