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Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:03 pm
by puma guy
The Marlinowners forum I access is blocked and a warning page comes up when I try to access the website even though there is no real threat. Info say it was reported 4 times as having some intrusive capacity, though the scans and the actual report couldn't find any. Google, Mozzila and more have warnings when you access the Marlin site. I'm no web or computer expert, but I assume this could be method to hurt gun websites either from malcontents or anti-gun zealots.

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:04 pm
by gringo pistolero
puma guy wrote:I'm no web or computer expert, but I assume this could be method to hurt gun websites either from malcontents or anti-gun zealots.
It could be. It could also be the site had phishing ads or similar dangers.

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:53 pm
by AlaskanInTexas
Its your computer's way of telling you that Marlin quality control has tanked (hopefully temporarily).

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:15 pm
by cb1000rider
I wouldn't take it personally or as an action of an anti-gun faction. Chances are, they just had software running that site that was open to intrusion.

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:57 am
by puma guy
cb1000rider wrote:I wouldn't take it personally or as an action of an anti-gun faction. Chances are, they just had software running that site that was open to intrusion.
What ever it was got fixed. The Google report stated that in the last 90 days there were almost 400 checks and no malware or any other threats was detected. Just 4 "reports". Other search engines were doing the same thing to folks.

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 5:06 pm
by rotor
Sometimes I get a similar warning from S&W forum that Norton blocked a malicious something.

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 5:56 pm
by puma guy
rotor wrote:Sometimes I get a similar warning from S&W forum that Norton blocked a malicious something.
This was being blocked by Google and Firefox

Re: Marlin Owners Gun forum tagged as malware

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:08 pm
by MasterOfNone
A site can also be flagged as a result of other sites hosted on a shared server. I once had a site flagged by WebSense as porn because I used a shared hosting plan, meaning my provided hosted multiple domains on a single server. Because my site shared an IP address with a porn site, it was flagged.