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    False Positive RiskWare.Injector

    in Website Blocking

    Posted

    The site has been whitelisted. Please allow 15-30 minutes for changes to take effect. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    If I were to use the link on the left, I would likely receive a suspicious download block.  Using the one on the right instead gives a suspicious content block.  Your web page says to rename it, as you are trying to avoid firewall blocks.  Renaming a file does not change the contents of the file, which would indicate that it is an executable.  An executable with any extension that is not associated with an executable would appear to be malicious.  Your note takes care of the fears (from a human perspective), but protection software is far from human.

    I did test the site (due diligence), but thank you for providing that note on the download page.

    *.advice.online - incorrectly flagged as suspicious

    in Chrome

    Posted

    @DWS2020,

    I understand your questioning of my statement.  Non-standard...yes, in terms of how things WERE.  Crowded is an aspect of how things WERE and how things ARE.  Opening the doors to a plethora of new TLDs, while positioned as a way to relieve crowding was in actuality a way to be able to collect a lot more money for registration of a huge number or new domain names, some of which could be gold mines due to the linking of the domain and the TLD.  It was a marketer's dream.

    That is nice to know, but not the basis of our blocks.  The basis comes down to a few basic points:

    • Non-standard domains provide an infinite number of places for malware to originate from, and statistics have shown malware is more likely to originate from a non-standard TLD than one of the few major TLDs,
    • Many people will click on virtually anything, and some of those people have a perception that a domain name somehow guarantees a legitimate site.
    • Those same people will be the first ones to say "Why didn't you protect me" when they did little to do that for themselves.

    As @Porthos has shown, mass unblocking of TLDs can be done with a single Browser Guard setting.  If you are a web surfer, that is great.  If you are a website operator who is affected by that setting, not so great.  The setting which he has pointed out originated as a result of complaints by people who either were taking responsbility for their own safety or simply decided that "it can't happen to them."

    We are trying to make the Internet a bit safer for people across the board.

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    *.advice.online - incorrectly flagged as suspicious

    in Chrome

    Posted

    Adding a site to a whitelist proactively is the equivalent of giving a free pass to everyone who says "Trust me."  Your previous site was blocked due to usage of a non-standard top level domain.  The ".asia" TLD is not blocked, and advice.asia redirects to Digital Wealth Solutions. It is working as is intended.  We do not block "just because" nor do we whitelist for that same lack of reason.

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    Blocked Download link to rewasd.com (162.243.189.2)

    in Chrome

    Posted

    The site has been whitelisted. Please allow 15-30 minutes for changes to take effect. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    The block was due to attempted download of an executable file.  While innocent in most cases, it is also a target for malware as the bad guys know the downloader will automatically trust it and execute it.

    metin2.top is bloqued

    in Chrome

    Posted

    The site has been whitelisted. Please allow 15-30 minutes for changes to take effect. Sorry for the inconvenience.  If you are experimenting with other .top sites, the setting which @Porthos mentioned will allow you to get to any that are not blocked for legitimate (malware) purposes.

     

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