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This is the title of this discussion: Google sites and other sites blocked problem is not fixed with update
What happened is from G's end, not Malwarebytes.
And it was solved from G's end.
Not Malwarebytes.
Because I didn't update.
The hpilots who began this thread also said the update is not what fixed it.
Or, am I mistaken? Some components updated, even though I haven't updated to a newer version?
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BTW, I took the advice and am using uBlock origin since over a year. Works great!
Please accept my apology if I am bad at communicating. I am reading the Sophos article:
and notice the connection type on the report is "outbound connection." That means something from outside my system is trying to access my PC, right?
Quotethe most concerning trend we’ve noted is the use of commercial cloud and web services as part of malware deployment, command and control. Malware authors’ abuse of legitimate communication platforms gives them the benefit of encrypted communications provided by Google Docs, Discord, Telegram, Pastebin and others—and, in some cases, they also benefit from the “safe” reputation of those platforms.
- quote from the article.
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Thanx for you inputs, David Lipman & Porthos! Honestly. Love you guys.
I am going to draft a summary, and snail mail Marcin Kleczynski again. Please leave this thread live, even if you close it.
Thank you.
Louise 🙂
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5 minutes ago, Porthos said:
Malwarebytes was blocking everything Google by mistake that day. There was no evil google infection. You can ignore all of those blocks from that day.
Porthos, appreciate your input.
I have more confidence in Malwarebytes than you do.
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David Lipman, thx for responding.
Bear with me.
As a device to implicate Malwarebytes, G could have substituted fake certs, which timed out the connections/ read as malware, to alarm all the Malwarebytes customers.
So now the G properties have carte blanche access to all computers with Malwarebytes?
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Just now, longbeachlouise said:
As mentioned by hpilot in the first post, the resolution came from G. I didn't update.
G sent the injection.
And G resolved it.
But, in the mean time, you give G carte blanche to never get blocked?
Something is wrong with this picture.
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I am thrilled Malwarebytes was doing its job! No complaints for me.
As mentioned by hpilot in the first post, the resolution came from G. I didn't update.
David Lipman, you said:
QuoteThat only means the the Browser could not properly authenticate the Site Certificate though the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server associated with that certificate. Nothing more.
Can there be an injection via the Site Certificate?
The "record was too long."
It is some kind of injection, right? via the site cert?
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Here follows the detection history for September 21st, 2022 for when I was online reverse order by time, or descending, because I scrolled down Malwarebytes detection history app on my desktop. When I saw G was being blocked, I tried gmail and youtube. Lots of those blocks showed up from visiting my regular websites, which have G enabled, like Techmeme.
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Google is trying to undermine your product. I already sent Marcin Kleczynski a snail mail in 2020. Google is trying to control every facet of the law-abiding world!
Notice the 3rd pic. Even Firefox blocked youtube, saying:Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during connection to www.youtube.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authentication cannot be verified.
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49 minutes ago, Porthos said:
To each their own.
Download the offline installer from : https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb4_offline
Thx for the link! :)
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May we talk about this? Google was delivering malware, Malwarebytes kept blocking.
Is it responsible to unblock Google, if the Big G is acting naughty?
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Because I prefer to update offline. I have to find the link every time.
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On 9/21/2022 at 1:07 PM, hpilot said:
When I encountered this problem today, the first thing I did was update at 12:23pm Eastern time. It updated to 4.5.14.210. This did NOT solve the problem. It was not until several hours after this that it started to work. I did NOT update again, because there were no newer updates. So, for everyone that keeps saying the update fixed it, I don't think so. It must have been server side.
I'm still on 4.5.7 and didn't bother to update, and the situation resolved itself.
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Okay, what? my comment disappeared.
The Refresh option didn't appear when I held the shift key, and I lost my tabs, so I might as well request help to deep clean my PC, so I can do a defrag.
Following the instructions to Refresh on Mozilla, I refreshed Firefox, which restored the default settings, and now I can view the video! Thanx for that.
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Will I keep my tabs? I have hundreds of tabs.
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Hi, Thanx for your response. Duly noted, the What Is My Browser website is a bad website.
What I am asking is: my browser isn't working properly, there is the (1) spiral loading animation when I click a link to Paypal which never resolves, and (2) as displayed, videos are not loading properly
When I checked the Devtools on Firefox, I notice there are a lot of Modified Preferences, which I didn't modify. Do you have Firefox? Can you make heads or tails of it?
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Hi Guys!
My Firefox has been hacked. May I start a discussion about it without taking action for the time being? I updated and ran Malwarebytes, and quarantined two items yesterday . . . but, they do not look like malware.
Troubleshooting access to Viki.com,
1) there is a message that my browser is not compatible
2) Firefox is current, version 90.0.2
3) but it reads as old
4) trying to access Web Developer on the Firefox pull down menu yields blank option
5) Checking DevTools on the about:config page in the url bar and checking, "Show only modified preferences" yields a bunch of changes I didn't make, or am aware of having made.
Thoughts, please?
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Thanx for your patience. We had a move in March - still settling in, besides deal with the pandemic!
By now, there was sabotage on the car engine of one vehicle, and the other was stolen, and totaled. Message to those that did it:
Poor sadistic sociopaths - aren't you frustrated? 😧
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10 minutes ago, exile360 said:
(something my own past posts on this very forum will often attest to)
Yes, I have enjoyed some of your past posts, researching mwbsys, and just read that very paragraph where you comment on data harvesting! You said:
On 10/22/2018 at 10:55 AM, exile360 said:It's not a hot potato at all, if it were then they would literally be in hot water with the California legal system as well as GDPR, both of whose policies they are in full compliance with.
That's pretty funny!
Set aside the youtube images which started this thread. It isn't up for debate to me it is absolute communication by the mafia insiders within Google cust svc / tech support / sales centers to harass or apply psychological pressure.
And let me take a moment to thank you and the helpers you named for contributing to a great product!
I am not talking about the past, as far as concern over the switch to Invision and the GTM code. I am not talking about the past. This is right now, and I actually follow through, and document stuff, send concerns to government agencies via snailmail, and am not ruling out writing to the owner, Marcin Kleczynski . . . As was suggested on the first page of this topic to send to local law enforcement, I copied the pictures, spent near $100.00 on copies and mailings, probably over by now, to snail mail my local police department and the US Attorney General. Also, I respect you and Advanced, and the helpers you mentioned, and I think I have exposure and pockets of knowledge and an interest in keeping tabs on the Big Picture to realize that Malwarebytes is primed to take a big reputation hit via the Google Tag Manager. Why give the keys to Malwarebytes reputation to another entity?
Finally, I am concerned that when this topic gets closed, which is fine - I said what I want to say! - that my ability to edit disappears, and the posts on this thread remain on record.
Of course, the Google Tags Manager, by enabling someone else to substitute a page, has the ability to SANDBOX the thread for specific viewers, as it does on Social Media. The same people behind Google are the same for Facebook and Twitter, and wield unbelievable power. They SANDBOX social media posts - that is, make them visible to the poster, and maybe the followers, and unsearchable to the public, just as news articles which implicate and can affect the markets of Google, Facebook, and Twitter are SANDBOXED, appear lower in the feed, or late in the news cycle, so they appear more as a footnote, and press releases further push news down the feed, which is objectional to Google, Facebook, and Twitter. This country is in trouble. OK, I didn't mean to go off on a rant! Google Tag Manager may allow SANDBOXING that I have observed elsewhere . . . For sure, the READ and UNREAD threads and posts are not appearing correctly right now to even you and the moderators.
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1 hour ago, exile360 said:
Well, IPS' developers are aware of the issue. I'm definitely not the biggest fan of the current forum software, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it overall 'glitchy'. It's just one bad design decision, in my own opinion, however their decision to make it work this way was quite deliberate, not some part of an overall unstable code situation. If their software was that bad Malwarebytes would have selected a different piece of software to run the forums on, and overall I'm actually happy with a lot of the new features offered in the current version. In fact, many of those new features are the very reason we don't have to deal with hundreds of spam threads from spambots every day any more, because that's how bad it was before IPS worked with our admins that run the forums to develop, install and enhance blacklisting tools, filters, and additional security measures to keep spammers and spambots off the forums and it has worked wonders. Now we have maybe an average of 1 spammer per month or less that successfully gets through, and usually those are actually humans; the automated/scripted bots that used to create tons of fake accounts constantly and bombard the forums with garbage are gone, and it is all thanks to the work done by the forum admins at Malwarebytes and their efforts to collaborate with IPS and take all these measures to put a stop to the spambot garbage.
Thank you for your explanation. That means something, because the interface of the forum was clean to me before and after the switch to IPS.
Yet - who knows? - lots of SPAM might be an indication of a healthy system . . .
There is less SPAM, but what is the trade-off? Whoever controls that Tag Manager has an upper hand on what is served to the users, since it can copy and make changes to the page, fooling users and staff alike.
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17 minutes ago, exile360 said:
No, it's not possible because we know the cause of the issues I experienced. It was/is a bug/issue with the IPS software itself. AdvancedSetup confirmed this himself through contact with IPS. They are aware of the issue and claim that it is the expected behavior (moved threads continue to make the area they were moved from show as 'unread' for about 24 hours after the thread was moved). It has nothing to do with Google or any substitute pages.
The forum is too glitchy - even outside the "moved" threads, many of the Read threads and sub categories being labeled, Unread, are making the forum almost unusable to tech aids, such as yourself! - to be considered, "expected behavior."
It may be a question for the Forum Webmaster, but I feel the keys were handed to IPS Community Suite, or Invision . . .
The changes you experienced might be because a change in the ID script allows a bad actor to create the changes you are experiencing.
As you said, the 2016 update in forum software is supposed to make the forum work more efficiently, not the reverse!
Why does this forum, or part of the Malwarebytes website, have to offer the easy access to insert javascript or make javascript changes to its pages?
The changes and anomalies you observed are indicative of compromises taking place on the website, the ones the Webmaster should be looking out for!
You said:
"There is no reason for an area to show as containing unread content when I have viewed every single topic in that area, including any 'moved' threads that are still linked there. It is bad UX and doesn't make sense, period."
Period.
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3 hours ago, exile360 said:
I assume that was intended for AdvancedSetup as I am not a forum moderator.
No, exile360, I absolutely intended this for you! You are helping the users - I thought you are one of the Malwarebytes forum-recommended trouble shooters for the issues people have. That is what you are. I have been helped by volunteers through the years, who I believe are NOT moderators, but they are vetted to be allowed to assist the users who have issues.
Please address the observations in the above.
Sincerely, Louise.
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Finally, I would like to pose Google Tag Manager on this forum is NOT Malwarebytes.
Does Malwarebytes have a Google Tag Manager account?
Maybe it belongs to Invision Community, and that is how they access the forum software and cause havoc and trouble for the moderators [and users].
Maybe Google Tag Manager comes preloaded in this Invision packet, and the Google Tag Manager account doesn't belong to Malwarebytes, but to the software suppliers, or IPS [Community Suite] I guess Advanced has referred them as, the suppliers of the software.
QuoteReply from IPS support: The issue you describe has been corrected in our upcoming 4.5 release
May I get an answer, why there has to be Google Tag Manager on this forum, and why there has to be Double Click trying to access the user's IP address?
What need is there for those tags on working Forum software?
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On 1/8/2020 at 11:34 PM, exile360 said:
To actually fix this they should just have so that if you click on the link to the moved topic to view it, if that was the only 'new' content preventing the area from showing as read then doing so should mark the entire area as read. This is my main issue with this function. There is no reason for an area to show as containing unread content when I have viewed every single topic in that area, including any 'moved' threads that are still linked there. It is bad UX and doesn't make sense, period.
On 1/10/2020 at 11:48 AM, exile360 said:I've found a new bug related to this. While browsing an area, once I view a thread and then return to the sub-forum where the thread is contained, other threads with new replies which I have not yet viewed are suddenly marked as read. This has happened multiple times in the past few days and I believe I've seen it before then but it does seem to be happening more frequently now.
You didn't know it before, but we established Google Tag Manager exists in this BB software, and the article, Malicious Activities with Google Tag Manager, demonstrates the tag manager can be injected with a redirect to make the viewer go to a different webpage created to look like the one shown in the url bar, by using the code:
window.location.href = “http://www.yourdomain.com/somepage.html”;QuoteAn attacker can just copy all the contents of your legitimate version and put it in their modified version while adding the malicious content.
The article notes there has to be a compromise of your Google Tag Manager account for the "attacker to either replace the code or the ID called on the script for the script to be used for bad intentions."
So. with this thread, I am saying the bad or "rogue" actors, as AdvancedSetup called them, exist within Google, just as the scary images were served to me based solely on IP address in real estate controlled by Google [youtube], the sidebar suggested videos, which in targeting me carried the tag, Recommended for You on nearly every scary image, implying human intervention!
Similarly, the glitchy forum software used here is accessed by Google bad actors, or insiders, who wreck havoc and serve imitation pages, therefore the, "Unread" labels you have to drill through.
exile360, can you say it is not a possibility? Based on the article, which you enjoyed, and your Malwarebytes Browser Guard which discerned 93 attempts to access your IP address by Google Tag Manager, out of 100, so it is the most, and the insufferable changes to the forum [for moderators and other visitors, alike] can you say injected code from the Tag Manager is not causing havoc to your ability to access critical content, which is questions and postings from users?
Google sites and other sites blocked problem is not fixed with update
in Malwarebytes for Windows Support Forum
Posted · Edited by longbeachlouise
Thanx for explaining that to me. Is there a place on my desktop app I can see what database version update it is on?
Okay. Let's see what the future holds.
Edited to add:
I viewed the roots analysis, where it says, the purpose of the .357 update is:
That is a noble endeavor. The problem is with Glitchy Google. Maybe the world needs to wean itself away from Google's glitchy and insecure products.
I'm certain the blocks experienced are valid and in order.