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Posted on February 25th, 2009 in Misc

Users of Firefox 3 might be getting a security warning when visiting this site due to be what seems to be a hickup between Google and my hoster.

The message falsely claims that it would be unsafe to visit VirtualR due to the site being reportedly malicious. This is of course not true! The problem seems to be that one or more domains associated with my hoster have been blacklisted and Google is expanding the ban to all domains now.

Weirdly, the Google diagnosis thing even confirms that: Of the 84 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-02-23, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

Hopefully, the situation will be resolved in a few hours. Users of Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and other browsers are not getting this message and everybody can enjoy the site as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: Seems like this problem was caused by embedded external content (either a banner or an embedded video). Google is currently checking the site again, issue should be resolved soon. Thank’s for everybodies patience and trust, I´ll keep you updated.

Final Update: Situation solved – Everything is back running as it should

12 Comments For This Post

Ryan Gilmore
February 25th, 2009 at 02:40

Getting it on chrome :) but ofc because its googles browser.

You trying to steal my data eh? :p Only kidding :D
Montoya
February 25th, 2009 at 02:43

Yes, Google is the problem – Firefox bases their warning on Google-data.

Even though this system certainly is a good idea to protect users, it seems to affect clean sites from time to time as the web is full of webmasters who suffered from the same problem
2point8
February 25th, 2009 at 04:12

I dont’ know Montoya, that damn talking “You’ve Won a Free Nintento Wii” add honestly annoys the sh*t out of me and I would definately consider it malicious
ermax18
February 25th, 2009 at 06:27

2point8, switch to FireFox and install the AdBlockPlus plugin and you will never win another Wii. :) I had to use IETab to get past the security warning and was bombarded with ads. I forgot what it was like to be an IE/Chrome/Safari user. :)
Gopher04
February 25th, 2009 at 06:38

FF 3 is rubbish anyway, its so god dam slow, i went to version 2, and thats always brought up warnings when i have visited here, right from day one..
Uff
February 25th, 2009 at 09:37

FF3 is a great browser; add AdAdBlock Plus as ermax said and it will become even better, without many annoying banners and unwanted new windows. :)
F1Racer
February 25th, 2009 at 10:02

Yeah FF3 is far and away the best browser. Speed is not the be all and end all. As you can see its the only browser that can and will warn you of dodgy sites.

Instead of AdBlock Plus, I just use NoScript. You get far more control over what can get run on a webpage.
For getting rid of annoying stuff on a page I use Nuke Anything Enhanced.
Like ermax18 I’m using IETab to view this page at the moment.

Hope it gets sorted soon so I can switch back to FF mode.
ScHiRoCk
February 25th, 2009 at 11:32

I knew it was BS
ermax18
February 25th, 2009 at 12:54

Gopher04, slow? Are you smoking rock? FF2 *was* slow. FF3 is much faster then IE. FF3.2 nightlies are drasticly faster. If you think FF is slow then you either haven’t used it in years or are a MS fanboy. Well, I am an MS fanboy so maybe that isn’t a reason. BTW, IE8RC is slower then FF also, even on Win7.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.2a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe
stabiz
February 25th, 2009 at 16:01

Its gone now.
DRat
February 25th, 2009 at 16:37

FF3 is slow to start up only if you are using a large number of add-ins. There is little difference in page loading performance between it and IE8RC1. Feature-wise, FF3 still runs rings around any version of IE, including the current IE8RC1. The only fly in the ointment with FF is the need to switch to the IE engine for some web pages (thanks to Microsoft-proprietary crap being used in the design of those pages).
timwheatley
February 25th, 2009 at 16:53

It wouldn’t even let me post a comment… Very annoying. Glad you got it sorted. :)

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