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[hyp3rstrike]

@Dark0ne:
Did you put in a Google "Reconsideration" request? Not sure what it is when you say you'll wait for Google to come around and sort it out, but if it is what I think it is, Google won't do anything until you've asked them to.

If you're already on top of it, then please disregard the following.

The community I run had a similar issue (although, ours got hacked) and we had to ask Google to "reconsider" their judgement for the warning. As far as I know, it's based on the domain name, rather than the actual server, and you're required to remove the content they're blocking you for before you can proceed.

http://support.googl...en&answer=35843

Again, if you're already aware of it then please just disregard what I've said. If not, I hope it helps you, from one webmaster to another.

[OrbitaLynx]

LAME! Google is the worlds #1 add provider in world lol they just want people to use their add service...

[hyp3rstrike]

@ OrbitaLynx

... I don't think that's the case mate. I think they just don't want users of the Internet to have their PCs harmed etc.

[spiderexpert]

>rather than Google blocking your browser from just seeing that ad server

you do realize this is impossible, yes?

Explain. If adblocker and noscript can block specific scripts from specific sites from working, why can't Google Chrome itself?

nowhere in the article does it say "chrome", so i assumed you were talking about the search engine, not the browser. the search engine can't do anything about how browsers display the content of other sites. anyway, considering the attack surface area and the speed with which it changes make blocking a site a far better option - for every known vulnerability there is an unknown one that chrome cannot block.

[Dark0ne]

nowhere in the article does it say "chrome", so i assumed you were talking about the search engine, not the browser. the search engine can't do anything about how browsers display the content of other sites. anyway, considering the attack surface area and the speed with which it changes make blocking a site a far better option - for every known vulnerability there is an unknown one that chrome cannot block.

It's Google Chrome, and Fire Fox using Google's anti-malware service, that blocks the content, not Google Search. As such it would be very easy to simply block a script running from a blacklisted site, rather than the entire site that links to the script.

[spiderexpert]

again, a site that hosts a known malicious script has a much higher probability of hosting an unknown malicious script. warning the user about it is entirely justified.

[Dark0ne]

We didn't host the script. It's not justified in the circumstances when a much more reasonable solution is possible.

If you actually do some research in to the extremely popular sites that got affected by the situation, and the reason why (the scripts weren't malicious at all, the frontend site that hosts the script had been hacked, but no script run by any of the sites blocked by Google in this case were malicious in any way) you'll realise that this is all rather daft from Google. If you don't realise that then yeah, I think you're daft.

[meegja]

Don't know if it has something to do with this topic, but my virus scanner (G Data Internet Security 2013) just did block entrance to part of your site: "Virus found when loading web content. Address: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/top/ Status: Access is denied." This on Windows 8 Pro 64bit with latest Firefox browser. First time this happened.

Edited by meegja, 09 February 2013 - 05:58 PM.

[Qurion]

use ADblock

i wouldnt even have known of any of this if i had not read this o.O

[bugfire]

>rather than Google blocking your browser from just seeing that ad server

you do realize this is impossible, yes?

Explain. If adblocker and noscript can block specific scripts from specific sites from working, why can't Google Chrome itself?

Ad-blocker and no-script are programs running locally on your computer, Google is not. Unless you want Google to start serving up it's own malicious code you have to protect yourself.