Malware-warning on my LS ratinglist-site

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pohl4711
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Full name: Stefan Pohl

Malware-warning on my LS ratinglist-site

Post by pohl4711 »

If you use Chome or Firefox, there will be a malware-warning, if you try to visit my website. The malware was an attack on beepworld, and the malware is removed now. And beepworld told me, that the malware was not new and so antivirus-software would have recognized it. And my antivirus-software (GDATA (commercial)) never displayed a warning and on my PC (I did a complete scan) no malware was found.
So it was and is safe to visit the website !!!

beepworld has already asked Google and Mozilla to remove the malware-warning. When this will happen is not clear...

Best – Stefan
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Re: Malware-warning on my LS ratinglist-site.

Post by Ajedrecista »

Hello Stefan:
pohl4711 wrote:If you use Chome or Firefox, there will be a malware-warning, if you try to visit my website. The malware was an attack on beepworld, and the malware is removed now. And beepworld told me, that the malware was not new and so antivirus-software would have recognized it. And my antivirus-software (GDATA (commercial)) never displayed a warning and on my PC (I did a complete scan) no malware was found.
So it was and is safe to visit the website !!!

beepworld has already asked Google and Mozilla to remove the malware-warning. When this will happen is not clear...

Best – Stefan
I can confirm that: I was using Internet Explorer 8 under Windows XP and I clicked to your link (great work by the way!) the day you published the rating for Critter 1.4a IIRC. Then Norton showed an attack instantly but it solved it pretty fast (I do not remember what was exactly because I deleted the list of attacks). :) I closed Internet and rebooted my PC. I also did not found any malware in my computer so I guess that Norton did its job and blocked the attack well. My solution: do not click more to visit your site until I am sure that this attack will gone... I think I will wait some months, just staying in the safer side. ;)

Thanks for your effort, as well as the hard work of engine programmers, GUI programmers, etc. I am sorry of that attack. Merry Christmas!

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.