dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

[yoshi]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

By the way - a site warning is all very well, but has anyone here actually noticed a virus or malware detection triggered by their security software?

Ian

I do not know whether this is related to this issue, but my pc was dead for about 36 hours till just a moment ago.
After I posted the message here yesterday I wanted to log off the PC. Windows update told me there was an update, so I duly updated it. Then the message requested re-booting of PC, so I followed the request. That's the end. My PC never came back. I was patient until 10 min. ago or so, but finally gave it a punch on both side literally, then it started working again. --- always a conventional rule of thumb

I do not find any malware so far after making a quick check out by two different anti-virus softwares. I'm afraid however that some or all of my files might have been scanned.

I'm using IE9 and vista now. IE9 does not show the alarm message but still showed a strage reaction when I logged-in at dpnow.

As Barr1e said yesterday's updating of windows could be related to this issue. Just my guess. Firefox continuously shows that message even now so I stopped using it.

yoshi

yoshi

[Pops]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

Pops -

Did you get the security update for IE earlier today? Unusual as it is normally Thursdays.

Regards. Barr1e

No, nothing at all.
I usually get my updates downloaded Wed night and installed Thurs morning at first boot up.

[Barr1e]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

No, nothing at all.
I usually get my updates downloaded Wed night and installed Thurs morning at first boot up.

22:09:2012 Critical Update (KB2744842)

It may update your computer when you switch off.

Regards. Barr1e

[Kurt]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

I get the warning on my mac, but not on iPad. When you get the warning you get the hence to visit a link which gives you more details about he problems. Most of them are related to advertisements. It is a quite worrying report and I suggest that something should be done otherwise it will put users and casual browsers ff visiting the site.

[OlyPaul]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

22:09:2012 Critical Update (KB2744842)

It may update your computer when you switch off.

Regards. Barr1e

Yes IE9 had a bad security breach on its browser which hopefully is what this fix is for and the reason I have been using chrome.

[Patrick]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

I do not find any malware so far after making a quick check out by two different anti-virus softwares. I'm afraid however that some or all of my files might have been scanned.
yoshi

HiYashi

It's my understanding you should only have one antivirus installed on a machine, as two can interfere with each other making both less effective.
I know this particular problem is another matter but your two anti viruses may be preventing a proper clean up.

Patrick

[Patrick]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

I get the warning on my mac, but not on iPad. When you get the warning you get the hence to visit a link which gives you more details about he problems. Most of them are related to advertisements. It is a quite worrying report and I suggest that something should be done otherwise it will put users and casual browsers ff visiting the site.

I have read, how true I am not 100% sure, that both iPad & iPhone can't be attacked unless you jailbreake them, then you would be wide open to attack, I think it may apply to some Andriod phones & tablets as well.

Patrick

[OlyPaul]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

By the way - a site warning is all very well, but has anyone here actually noticed a virus or malware detection triggered by their security software?

Ian

I ran a full scan and found nothing .

But from your point of view Ian it should not be the point as Chrome is the most popular browser at 33% with IE just behind it and the others behind them.

This means that at two of your sites probably 50% of guests and newcomers are turning away from looking while this continues.

[Ian]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

Just to let you know that our host providers have scanned our servers for malware to the deepest levels and have not found anything to explain the Google security warnings many of you have seen.

We think the warnings were triggered by suspicious banner ads that accidentally got into an ad stream from one of our ad partners. We have now terminated the source of ads that we suspect is the problem. Google also points out that DPNow is not an intermediary for the malware and has not detected any malware in the two days since we stopped the suspected ad stream.

Our sites will remain on the Google list of sites they feel they need to warn visitors about, but there is a mechanism for us to apply to be removed from such lists and we are starting this application procedure and hope that the warnings triggered will soon cease.

Thank you very much for your understanding!

Ian

[Kurt]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

I think the browsers that get this are those that use a combined search and address field. I certainly get the warning with Safari on the mac, but not with Firefox (although I have turned ads off in Firefox, just in case). It is most alarming to get the message and I am sure it will put visitors off, so the sooner Google removes the warning the better. - K.

[Ian]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

I understand that the site review can take anything from a few hours to a full day. I will of course update here once the review is completed and we know whether or not we're off the warning list.

Ian

[yoshi]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

HiYashi

It's my understanding you should only have one antivirus installed on a machine, as two can interfere with each other making both less effective.
I know this particular problem is another matter but your two anti viruses may be preventing a proper clean up.

Patrick

Thanks Patrick, I installed a next year edition of my antivirus software this morning and it automatically removed another one which was MS Security Essentials.

The latter is not bad in spite of its free-of-charge. The main one has a temporary suspension mode and during that time I could run the MS one for double check purposes. It detected one minor malware last year, although the main could not. Of course, it depends on the definition of the malware though.

But it's true. Antivirus software should not be installed more than one.
I once loved adaware or spybot. I sometimes miss them. As far as spywares are concerned they were quite effective.

yoshi

[Caz]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

Coming late to this discussion - I wasn't getting the message when I was using my old computer (the motherboard died the weekend of the 15/16th) and I was using a laptop and Google Chrome, which was fine.

When I started using this computer, however, I got the attack message - which is why I've come in via Chrome tonight (although on quickly trying Firefox) and haven't had the attack message via either route so hopefully the problem has been solved.

This is the message I was getting

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for dpnow.com

What is the current listing status for dpnow.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 120 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 19 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-09-23, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-09-21.

Malicious software includes 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including bookmarketingforauthors.info/, studiomuca.com/, mucastudio.com/.

3 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including juanmari.net/, kentlyonsdev2.com/, poddubem.com/.

This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS32244 (LIQUID), AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone).

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

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

Glad you're back!

[mike_j]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

By the way - a site warning is all very well, but has anyone here actually noticed a virus or malware detection triggered by their security software?

Ian

Bullguard was reporting that the site was blocked but may have just been repeating the Google warning.

Seems to be clear now.

[throt]

Re: dpnow = attack page? --- I donot get it.

Finally I saw it too. Had some issues with office network and somehow the url redirected to google search (probably too long waiting time) and when coming from google search the site is reported.