Warning: Dangerous SIte!

[pincher]

My McAfee is going bonkers at PH every time I try and navigate somewhere



Even the Bay of Pirates only gives an amber warning

[m8rky]

Same for me.

[FourWheelDrift]

The only thing worse than Norton.

[flibbage0]

Same over here as well, quite peculiar as to why it is marked as dangerous, the site report doesn't even divulge into the reasons why.

[FourWheelDrift]

Probably one advert from an external source served via the ad servers made a noise, someone reported it and Mcafee stuck a warning on the site. They do stupid things like that.

[snapdragon69]

What kind of freaking OS could be harmed by visiting a website?

[FunkyNige]

snapdragon69 said:

What kind of freaking OS could be harmed by visiting a website?

Both of the major ones, they're known as drive by downloads
http://blogs.mcafee.com/consumer/drive-by-download

[Merp]

I have this issue aswell with a link to my classified.

[TheHeretic]

I get this.

[alpha channel]

One way of getting rid, get shot of McAfee . There's been documented evidence of McAfee updates (two so far) tanking PC's (though they are far from the only ones that've done this AVG has done it as well) thanks to the update seeing a vital Windows file as a threat and nuking it.

I've personally never paid for AV/firewall for years (I personally use Comodo on all my machines which covers everything that McAfee/Norton does i.e. AV, Firewall, Sandboxing, etc... and includes a handy utility that shows the connections going in and out of your PC, interesting stuff). As has been said it's mostly likely a third party Ad that someone has reported.

[0000]

pincher said:

Can't be any worse a choice than Belize.

[naw]

You could try changing to Web of Trust (WOT) http://www.mywot.com/
It puts a little traffic-light-style symbol next to any link, eg Google search results, as well as warning you before entering any dangerous site.
For instance on the Google search results, it flags in red or orange anything dodgy.


It's free too.

[DougieMc]

Booooo blocked for me too
Just got over the advert problems and swapped over to Firefox.
Now have to email to ask for "Special " request for blocked site

[Baron Greenback]

Our network at work has refused access to front main page and classified page! Thank god I can still uses forum page via Google.

[pad58]

TheHeretic said:

I get this.

Beer? is someone asking you out for a beer?

[TheHeretic]

pad58 said:

Beer? is someone asking you out for a beer?

I went on a lovely date with a popup window.

[mattnunn]

My work web filter has classified PH as a malicious site, i thought it had presumed it had parsed all the racism and bigotry on the news and lounge forums and decided i needed protecting from it.

[MattDell]

What's more confusing as a site admin is that McAfee says our site is fine:
https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/pistonheads.com
https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/pistonheads.com/...

[Baron Greenback]

So what's changed during the weekend? New advert that the security tech library doesn't like! Tis a strange one that only main page and classifieds are affected.

[bass2rez]

Same for me on the McAfee Site Advisor.

Additionally, over the weekend our Checkpoint firewall at work is ranking "www.pistonheads.com" as a hacking site and can no longer be viewed.

Can anyone from the editorial team please comment on this?