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I'm so tech ignorant that I' don't know what the issue was but after a couple hours the McAffe tab went from blinking red to solid green. When I opened it, it said that the issue was with something AW was linked to but that the issue was now resolved, whatever that means.
I suspect it was triggered by a would-be spammer's sig link.
I banned and deleted all of a would-be spammer's posts this morning because of sig spam.
The AW server itself is clean; I just scanned it again.
But you can receive malware warning because someone has linked, often unknowingly, to an infected site. Or because you're the victim of an attempted injection attack, where a site you visited days or weeks or hours ago has inserted javascript and waits for an iframe (used by ads) to insert malicious code.
Always feel free to contact me if you get such a warning; I want to know about it, and the more data you can give me (what thread, had you just done new posts, was there a specific malware or URL?) the easier it is for me to track it down.
Just checked mine, but it's still showing red.
Thanks for the information, much appreciated.
I just went to the site, it happened to me as well. I was about to make a thread, only to see one already there. Thanks for letting us know what's going on though.
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Yep, I'm still getting red. I've got McAfee on this machine but it's pretty bare-bones. I was also getting warnings on my work machine today, which has a much more formidable firewall and VPN. So something was definitely up. I wonder if it's one of the ads...?
Could someone take a screen shot of the warning and send it to me [email protected].
Any additional information would be helpful; i.e. you were on the top page of the site, or a particular thread, or use New Posts . . .
It may be that there's a malformed iframe in one of the Google ads, but everyone potentially sees different Google ads, based on your individual settings and browsing.
You may have McAfee citing a specific URL that isn't an AW address; that would be helpful too.
Thanks
Any additional information would be helpful; i.e. you were on the top page of the site, or a particular thread, or use New Posts . . .
It may be that there's a malformed iframe in one of the Google ads, but everyone potentially sees different Google ads, based on your individual settings and browsing.
You may have McAfee citing a specific URL that isn't an AW address; that would be helpful too.
Thanks
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McAfee Site Advisor
FYI I've been getting intermittent McAfee SiteAdvisor warnings about this site. Sometimes the site seems to come up clean, and sometimes it comes up "red." But when I tried to submit a review (on this page), it didn't go through.
But McAfee SiteAdvisor is weird. Now and then, I've gotten warnings about blocked content here. And when I unblocked it, it turned out to be a banner for an AW's new book. OMG those dangerous authors!
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Urgh! I'm getting the red button, but when I click it to see the review or whatever, it comes up clean. Which is good, and yet at the same time frustrating because it doesn't really help, does it?
FYI I've been getting intermittent McAfee SiteAdvisor warnings about this site. Sometimes the site seems to come up clean, and sometimes it comes up "red." But when I tried to submit a review (on this page), it didn't go through.
But McAfee SiteAdvisor is weird. Now and then, I've gotten warnings about blocked content here. And when I unblocked it, it turned out to be a banner for an AW's new book. OMG those dangerous authors!
ETA:
Urgh! I'm getting the red button, but when I click it to see the review or whatever, it comes up clean. Which is good, and yet at the same time frustrating because it doesn't really help, does it?
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That actually does help, and it suggests that McAfee doesn't like iframes or Amazon.
I at least have something to work with, so thanks very much.
On my system, it's because of one of the adverts. It doesn't happen always, but it's the second banner ad up from the bottom (in the site footer, under the forum area). McAfee highlights that it's blocked content on the page, and that's the thing with the blocked content logo.
McAfee is one of the services I use constantly to check the server.
I suspect that McAfee hates iFrames, but just the same, never hesitate to contact me.
I wanna know.
I suspect that McAfee hates iFrames, but just the same, never hesitate to contact me.
I wanna know.
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Just a few minutes ago, I got one of those McAfee warnings where they block the banner ads. I clicked the button to show the blocked content anyway. (The ad for Archlight is so shockingly dangerous. 
) And the first page I ended up at was a page that was blank except for containing this URL:
sacore:whitelist?url=http://absolutewrite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=35
Don't know if that helps any? If I get the blocking message again, I'll try to see if I can get more information.
FWIW the ads I can see now are the Arclight one at the top, IllustriaBooks.com, 48HrBooks.com, Salt Cay Writers Retreat, Editing for Authors, and the Kindle ad.
) And the first page I ended up at was a page that was blank except for containing this URL:sacore:whitelist?url=http://absolutewrite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=35
Don't know if that helps any? If I get the blocking message again, I'll try to see if I can get more information.
FWIW the ads I can see now are the Arclight one at the top, IllustriaBooks.com, 48HrBooks.com, Salt Cay Writers Retreat, Editing for Authors, and the Kindle ad.
That's the notification from McAfee that AW is on their "whitelist" of safe domains because they scan us at least once a day.
Don't know if that helps any? If I get the blocking message again, I'll try to see if I can get more information.
The first three "ads" are served by AW; they're just images with a link. The last two banners at the top are Google ads.
Thanks Anne; I appreciate it.
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Considering the google banner ads are sometimes horrendous scammers maybe McAfee has a point. (just kidding)
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McAfee is banninated from my computer, like anything else that comes bundled with sneaky installers/downloaders. I just use ad-blocking browser add-ons (which leave the nice AW stuff on). Quiet, peaceful.
We do try to block them, but it's hard because they keep changing their IDs which means blocking them all over again.
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I think McAfee is doing again. 
And I believe this might be the ad that was blocked:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442221828/?tag=absowrit-20
And I believe this might be the ad that was blocked:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442221828/?tag=absowrit-20
I think McAfee is doing again.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442221828/?tag=absowrit-20
McAfee is being hysterical. It's a little hyper. That's a direct link to Amazon; it's the book by Colorado Guy at the top of the page.
It's assuming an iframe is hostile.
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Or maybe McAfee wants to keep your children in the emergency room instead of out of it. :Eek:
Down with hostile iframes! Up with kind and polite iframes!
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