Malware bytes blocking message

Sounds like you have Malwarebytes running in real time, and it caught the issue?

Interesting that apparently malvertizing is being detected, along with Malwarebytes and Panda, I have my adblocker turned on and the block message still shows up occasionally.   This is the only site I see the block message.

Nice to know the anti-virus programs are doing their job.

Rusty

Yep, I have the paid version and it runs realtime.  It's snagged a few things on websites, well worth the $25 lifetime price.

I consider malware, viruses, spammers etc in same league as someone breaking into my house.  What I would take pleasure and enjoy doing to this low life cretin   if written here, I'm afraid Rich would ban me from the board.

The "False Positive" info is from Malwarebytes themselves:

https://forums.malwarebytes.or...ic/179427-209866020/

Though I work in this industry and I would not say it is a false positive.  Major security sites and scanners have home.earthlink.net listed as compromised and currently retained on their block lists:

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/r...s/home.earthlink.net

In any case the issue is not with this forum.   Certain users' signatures include a link to their personal webpage hosted at earthlink and that could be setting off Malwarebytes. 

That's a different issue Andy, check the date: Posted 29 February

I've had many updates since then.

Outside of AV updates - I let no program auto update. None. It may prompt me to update - and I can make that choice - but nobody gets full reign to do as they want with my machine. Where did I learn this radical behavior??  Working as a Sys Admin in IT at a major defense contractor. The reasoning is simple: if an update harms or crashes a system - it's too late. Hence, any updates were applied to a 'test' system before being applied to production. That includes Microsoft, Adobe, and all the rest.

As a 1 computer guy - I don't have the luxury of multiple systems. So, I began watching whose stuff - especially internet apps - were constantly being updated. The biggest culprit? Adobe Flash. So I re-configured Flash to always prompt me for use, and I turned off auto-redirect. The payoff is that I have had absolutely zero virus infections since doing so - and my data usage has dropped by a full 30%.

I get it that sites need to make money. But! Heaving 50 Flash ads that all have to load and all have to dance around my screen is over bearing - and in some cases - a complete annoyance. Hence, by turning off Flash, I don't get all that intrusion happening. I know that cuts into a site's profits - but there has to be a better way.

FWIW - I dump all cookies - including Flash cookies - at the end of every browser session. And, I have a script that runs when I start my machine to clean out as much of Google's intrusion of privacy as possible. I own this machine. I control what is on it. And in that, I am entitled to a relative and appropriate amount of privacy.

"but rather "Block is for malvertising".  They pointed me to this link."

Malvertising' Crooks Earn $25,000 A Day Attacking Yahoo And AOL Users

Incidentally - you can't get to the Forbes link with cookies turned off - because Forbes wants to autoload some 30-day "trial" of some who-ha app on your machine. Of course - at the end of 30 days you are going to get dinged again and again to buy it. And don't doubt that it won't continue to track your every move.

One thing I have done and seems to help is to add extra letter after the dot name: comm becomes comm, net is nett etc.  See alot of messages I never sent (obviously addresses were seized somehow) being returned because address incorrect.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

...In any case, they didn't say anything about false positives with Malwarebytes, so I'd be interested in where Rich got that information.

I got it from a link which someone posted in the other thread. They are not going to admit that their software will give false positives!

Well Rich, I suppose I can't argue with that logic, you may be right.