Hello.
I do apologize if this isn't the correct place to post this, if it is not, please tell me where I should post this. Thank-you.
It has been brought to my attention from one of my fellow admins on our forum that their antivirus, Norton Security Suite, has detected a specific link that seems to be from an ad generator that it deems to be malicious. Here is what he wrote:
"When I try to access the forum I get this message. I’m using Chrome and have Norton Anti-virus extensions enabled. The link is to some external site so I think it’s one of the ads or other fluff that is on most web pages these days.
[...]
I did some further searches for “what is discovernative malicious” and got a few forum hits from other places. The Google Search results showed the beginnings of their messages and it’s about the same thing. When I went to read their messages, after a few seconds I got the same popup about the malicious site. So it appears that somewhere on the forum pages is “click-bait” and/or a video that invokes a script from that web site and that triggers the block.
You might want to contact forumotion support and tell them about that “discovernative.com” site and ask if accessing / referencing it is part of the web page frames.
Funny you don’t see it but other people do. Since I’m getting a message from Norton I wondering if other people are getting the whatever vulnerability that Norton is warning me about. Or it could be that Norton has misclassified the site as malicious.
Anyway, this is about as far as I can trace this. Sorry."
I don't want to post the URL here that he says is being blocked without admin approval.
I don't know who to report this to either, if there is a way to contact Forummotion about this or not.
I do appreciate any help with this matter, it is of utmost importance that all forums work properly without issue and that no malicious content is found within them. It doesn't appear to be something that was shared in our forum either.
Thank-you!
I do apologize if this isn't the correct place to post this, if it is not, please tell me where I should post this. Thank-you.
It has been brought to my attention from one of my fellow admins on our forum that their antivirus, Norton Security Suite, has detected a specific link that seems to be from an ad generator that it deems to be malicious. Here is what he wrote:
"When I try to access the forum I get this message. I’m using Chrome and have Norton Anti-virus extensions enabled. The link is to some external site so I think it’s one of the ads or other fluff that is on most web pages these days.
[...]
I did some further searches for “what is discovernative malicious” and got a few forum hits from other places. The Google Search results showed the beginnings of their messages and it’s about the same thing. When I went to read their messages, after a few seconds I got the same popup about the malicious site. So it appears that somewhere on the forum pages is “click-bait” and/or a video that invokes a script from that web site and that triggers the block.
You might want to contact forumotion support and tell them about that “discovernative.com” site and ask if accessing / referencing it is part of the web page frames.
Funny you don’t see it but other people do. Since I’m getting a message from Norton I wondering if other people are getting the whatever vulnerability that Norton is warning me about. Or it could be that Norton has misclassified the site as malicious.
Anyway, this is about as far as I can trace this. Sorry."
I don't want to post the URL here that he says is being blocked without admin approval.
I don't know who to report this to either, if there is a way to contact Forummotion about this or not.
I do appreciate any help with this matter, it is of utmost importance that all forums work properly without issue and that no malicious content is found within them. It doesn't appear to be something that was shared in our forum either.
Thank-you!