TheOldNet Posted August 1, 2019 ID:1327057 Share Posted August 1, 2019 (edited) Hi I'm the creator of theoldnet.com which is a site intended to provide a vintage experience when browsing website snapshots from archive.org This is a supported and endorsed project by the internet archive. There is no phishing going on here. The paypal security team incorrectly flagged my site as a phishing site because it was serving up very old snapshots of paypal. However this is all content freely available through the internet archive's way back machine. I do not own this content I just proxy it. A lot of users are reporting my site is being detected by malware bytes. How can help me figure out what I need to do to stop getting flagged as a false positive? Thank you! Edited August 1, 2019 by AdvancedSetup Cleared formatting issue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TeMerc Posted August 1, 2019 Staff ID:1327091 Share Posted August 1, 2019 1 hour ago, TheOldNet said: Hi I'm the creator of theoldnet.com which is a site intended to provide a vintage experience when browsing website snapshots from archive.org This is a supported and endorsed project by the internet archive. There is no phishing going on here. The paypal security team incorrectly flagged my site as a phishing site because it was serving up very old snapshots of paypal. However this is all content freely available through the internet archive's way back machine. I do not own this content I just proxy it. A lot of users are reporting my site is being detected by malware bytes. How can help me figure out what I need to do to stop getting flagged as a false positive? Thank you! Hello, thanks for bringing this to our attention. We've reviewed the site again and have determined it no longer warrants being blocked so we've removed it from our database. Removal should be reflected in the next database update going out in the next couple hours or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOldNet Posted August 1, 2019 Author ID:1327093 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Awesome. Is there anything I can do to prevent false positives in the future? It is not just your service that is detecting my site as malicious. I've had to make requests to a handful of other services. I fear that this will be a never ending up hill battle. I understand how this could happen because my site is returning what looks like fake versions of real websites. However the archive.org way back machine doesn't seem to suffer from these problems. So I wonder if there are some key things I can change in my code or in my server config to avoid this from happening again. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TeMerc Posted August 2, 2019 Staff ID:1327284 Share Posted August 2, 2019 20 hours ago, TheOldNet said: Awesome. Is there anything I can do to prevent false positives in the future? It is not just your service that is detecting my site as malicious. I've had to make requests to a handful of other services. I fear that this will be a never ending up hill battle. I understand how this could happen because my site is returning what looks like fake versions of real websites. However the archive.org way back machine doesn't seem to suffer from these problems. So I wonder if there are some key things I can change in my code or in my server config to avoid this from happening again. Thanks! Not sure what you can do here in this case, best advice is to populate the security forums or forums or groups related to this type of site and spread the word. Good luck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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