False Positive - tenforums.com

[hunggnuh85]

Hi, I'm just an occasional visitor of tenforums. Recent weeks, I used an adblock script which in turn used your hosts-file.net and could not access the site. Eventually, I found out it was blocked in hosts-file which really surprised me, as the forum has been extremely helpful to me. 

A search on hosts-file.net stated that the site is NOT currently listed in hpHosts, but the adblock author pointed out it is actually in both the main hosts.txt and mmt.txt.

So, I think it's a false positive and would like to report here.

[Aura]

Hi hungguh

Can you post a screenshot showing the block, or copy/paste the block report? I'm using both Malwarebytes Premium and Malwarebytes for Chrome, and I can access TenForums.com just fine.

[hunggnuh85]

Is this the correct forum to report false positives for hpHosts? (The Contact Us page points here). So, I don't know if it has anything with Malwarebytes, but the issue is with hosts files on hosts-file.net (hpHosts)

Well, the issue was first posted on SNBForums, which I'll link & quote here.

1. The symtom:

Quote

hi
im having the following issue with this especific domain: tenforums.com

by default, its under a blocking file, therefore i wont be able to access the website
 

Code:

 Blocking file options:
 5. Find domain in hosts file(s)

 Enter selection [1-5 e=Exit] 5

  i  This finds in which hosts file(s)
     a domain is blocked.

 Enter domain  [e=Exit] tenforums.com

 tenforums.com
 was found in the following list(s):

 hosts-file.net-mmt.txt

 

2. The adblock script author replied:

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The specific domain is included in https://hosts-file.net/mmt.txt and in their main file https://hosts-file.net/download/hosts.txt.
But according to their search function, it should not. Must be a glitch in the automated processor.

 

[Dashke]

Thanks, we will look into it

[hunggnuh85]

On 11/11/2018 at 6:15 PM, Dashke said:

Thanks, we will look into it

Hi, I still see it in those above-mentioned hosts files. Did you forget modifying them or is there really something wrong with this site?