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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 22:27
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I just got this message..........



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demons breath
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 22:29
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And it's a pile of rubbish. I got that once or twice in Chrome but I don't think there was actually anything there, so...

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 22:30
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Probably infected adverts. Gizmodo had some for a time.

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Posted: 29th Nov 2009 22:31
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Don't worry, it just says that because it detects me here

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Silvester
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Posted: 30th Nov 2009 06:49
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I've been getting that one a lot... Probably someone using that site to host their signature or their own website somewhere.


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xplosys
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Posted: 30th Nov 2009 14:22
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Guilty by association? Have the Spyware conspiracy theorists gone too far? Are search engines listing your site as "Dangerous", driving away possibly millions of visitors a day, and at what cost to you? Don't miss our slightly embellished and exaggerated coverage of "Your site could be next on the list".

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Venge
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Posted: 30th Nov 2009 14:25
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Is it the search engine that says that? I thought it was just a Chrome thing.

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The Master Dinasty
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Posted: 30th Nov 2009 14:34
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Even if the ones who hosts this website host another site for malware, it dosent mean that TGC contains it.
I agree with Xpolsys, "ANTI SPYWARE" theorists is stretching the limit a bit to far.

Just a thought



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xplosys
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Posted: 30th Nov 2009 14:44
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I think what the message is saying is that there is content on this site which comes from another site which has been tagged as malicious. As someone already said, perhaps an image. I don't think it has anything to do with the host, but that may be next.

@Pincho Paxton,
Is that a browser message or from some other software program?

Brian.

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BatVink
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Posted: 30th Nov 2009 15:08
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It's a message from Chrome. It means someone's using an avatar or signature image hosted on the named site. In turn, someone with the same host is hosting infected files. So it's a 3rd generation error message.

This site can only render images from other sites, not files. Even PHP -generated images are filtered for anything malicious.

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