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Well, I went to visit LTT and this came up haha.

Either Linus secretly setup a silent java drive by, jshook or maybe it was an accident?

 

 

How do I bypass this security error?

Select details > click "visit this unsafe site"

 

Possible reason as to why it's showing an error?

LTT is hosted under: AS16509 (AMAZON-02).

That server or host seems to have contained malware.

 

https://www.stopbadware.org/clearinghouse/search?url=linustechtips.com

 

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I just got a warning from avast when i tried to access the forum. Never had this problem before. The image says "The site you trying to enter contains malware. Hackers that are currently present on linustechtips.com will possibly try to install harmful programs on your Mac to steal or delete personal information (pictures, passwords, messages and credit card information). 

 

Maybe its just avast derping, but i thought i'd address the issue none the less.

 

I'm using chrome

 

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Same here, the standard Firefox warning.

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I have BitDefender and nothing came up for me.

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Firefox apls. 

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I have BitDefender and nothing came up for me.

 

It's the browser warning, not an antivirus. Kinda weird.

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Not seeing anything on Chrome.

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same on waterfox. hopefully they didnt do what google did a few years back lol

 

however opera doesnt do this.

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It's the browser warning, not an antivirus. Kinda weird.

Whoops. I posted in the wrong thread.

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/298650-malware-on-ltt/ <- this guy is talking something about Avast

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I made a post in another thread tagging Linus about this problem.

 

They may want to do something about the incorporation of the uruilist.com domain because Chrome is even now throwing flags for it. @LinusTech

 

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Guess someone beat me to it when i was writing my own topic :D

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I made a post in another thread tagging Linus about this problem.

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I've got the warning coming up on Firefox but not Pale Moon or Chrome. What is going on?

 

Edit 1:

Also when I clicked the button that is supposed to tell me what is wrong with the website I get this from Google.

 

Edit 2:

Now I'm getting it the warning in Firefox and Chrome, but not Pale Moon.

 

Edit 3:

I should note the only anti virus I'm using is Adblock Plus (disabled on LTT websites), Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Premium

 

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same here. happened a few minutes ago
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I'm on Firefox and I got this warning as well.

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It's coming up for me too :/ (On Chrome)

 

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Just got the same issue on Firefox 28, Avast says the site is safe, Google just dun goofed I guess.

 

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I got it too.

 

Badware warning. I ignored it 'cause I'm on Ubuntu right now, but what's the deal?

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Same.

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Just got the same issue on Firefox 28, Avast says the site is safe, Google just dun goofed I guess.

 

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I'm wondering if it has to do with cloudflare. Maybe a site under the shared cloudflare records contained mass amounts of malware making all sites under the specific CF nameservers "dangerous". Cloudflare is known to hide illegal websites after all.

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