Norton Safe Web Report for nexusmods.com ( Caution )

[seweryn]

Hey,

 

So i noticed recently that my norton is giving me warning about nexusmods.com , apparently they are some virus here, at least according to norton.

 

Summary

• Computer Threats: 1
• Identity Threats: 0
• Annoyance factors: 0

Total threats on this site: 1

Web sites rated "Caution" may have a small number of threats and annoyances, but are not considered dangerous enough to warrant a red "Warning". Proceed with caution.

 

Threat Name:

Suspicious.MH690

Location:

http://www.nexusmods.com/wastebin/QUARANTINED_893_176

Is it a big problem or is it been already taken care off ?

I remember some time ago, google blacklisted nexus mods for some other reason.

I wanted to ask is everything under control here ?

Thanks for the info and cheers,

Sew

 

[DrakeTheDragon]

Erm, not one of the site devs or anything here, but to me this sounds like they're complaining about there being potential virus infected files or malware already locked away into the "quarantine".

That'd be like when Norton System Security would throw a fit every time it moved a suspicious file into its "own" quarantine folder, only because there's now a suspicious file "inside" the quarantine folder.

 

Guess this Norton web crawler little spider bot doesn't know what the "wastebin" on here is about nor what it's used for.

 

But wait for a more official response to be safe.

[Dark0ne]

The fact their spiders can crawl a part of the site that is not linked anywhere on the site is utterly perplexing/worrying. It is indeed our quarantine area for mods that had viruses.

[bben46]

It says:

 

Total threats on this site: 1

Web sites rated "Caution" may have a small number of threats and annoyances, but are not considered dangerous enough to warrant a red "Warning". Proceed with caution.

Proceed with caution - not bad advice for any web site. :cool:

 

But, it flagged a file in the wastebin :blink: where we put any suspicious files. You have no access to wastebin - because there may be dangerous files there that we have locked away from users so they cannot access them for a reason. One reason is a suspected virus. This idiot antivirus is giving you a direct link to a file in a folder that we have locked to keep users safe. :pinch: Just how dumb is that? Maybe Norton needs to reevaluate that policy. :whistling:

[Arthmoor]

That's kind of bad really. That folder ought to have some kind of required authorization wall to block bots from getting at it. Especially now that the link is in the open and other bots will be able to locate it. The link in the OP is clickable and offers to download the file directly even.

[seweryn]

Normally i wouildn't even bother with this because i was using nexus since 2006 and never had any problem , virus wise, but that google think website had few months back got me thinking.

I have been using norton from 2005, it saved my ass from activating virus applications that suppose to be safe, it was s#*! back then ( norton ), but since 2009 it is getting better and better.

Thanks for quick response and have a nice day.

 

Cheers,

Sew

[DrakeTheDragon]

Coming from a web developer's background, usually these spiders are controlled, or guided rather as they usually don't like control, by either specific directives inside the "robots.txt" or the website's so-called "sitemap" index, containing any and all pages of the site that "should" be accessible. If the Nexus' sitemap also contains pages from inside the wastebin, then there you go, that's where they got it from.

 

However, that an application claiming to be providing "safety" to the web and its users is now actively "linking" to harmful software the moderation team has pro-actively "locked away" for good... I can't really say what I think about this.

You won't go sending emails out to your pals containing a list of links into your system's "virus quarantine" now, would you? Norton just did.

[seweryn]

Coming from a web developer's background, usually these spiders are controlled, or guided rather as they usually don't like control, by either specific directives inside the "robots.txt" or the website's so-called "sitemap" index, containing any and all pages of the site that "should" be accessible. If the Nexus' sitemap also contains pages from inside the wastebin, then there you go, that's where they got it from.

 

However, that an application claiming to be providing "safety" to the web and its users is now actively "linking" to harmful software the moderation team has pro-actively "locked away" for good... I can't really say what I think about this.

You won't go sending emails out to your pals containing a list of links into your system's "virus quarantine" now, would you? Norton just did.

 

Thanks for clarifying this.

 

Cheers and have a nice day.

Sew