About the warning for "Attack sites"

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craftomega

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It seems to me that they seem to be a little random.

EX:
http://world.guns.ru/civil-e.html - this one is fine
http://world.guns.ru/civil/rus/saiga-e.html - this is an dangerous website

Just things like that. It seems almost to be a little racist.

This is only one example but does anyone know why they seem to be very arbitrary and inaccurate?
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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He may be talking about Google Chrome's safe browsing stuff? I loaded both pages in chrome, and sure enough, the first one went right through, the second one said world.guns.ru is known to harbor malware and asked me if I wanted to continue. I think the racism comment is about the Saiga being a Russian made gun, although I'm not sure how that correlates with the second page.
 

DoPo

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Well, Google [http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?hl=en-GB&site=http://world.guns.ru/civil/rus/saiga-e.html] tells you why it was blocked.

What is the current listing status for world.guns.ru/civil/rus?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this website may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days
EDIT: Damn, I clicked "Post" instead of "Preview". Anyway, let me finish:

It is because the attacks (seem to) come from that page alone, so there is no need to blacklist the whole domain. Also, why racist?
 

Korolev

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People accused Norton of racism after they declared an official Chinese-English news site to be a malware site. In reality, even good sites can become attack sites because crafty crims like to hide malware in ads they put on their website. This happened with Destructoid a while back.
 

DoPo

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Lovely... I went to the second site using IE8 (for the lulz) and...I got nothing. No warning of any sort. Only after the page was loaded I got a pop-up saying "This page uses Java. If you want to learn more about Java [blah blah]". If you needed a reason why not to use IE, that is a good one.

Admittedly, it was version 8.0.7600.16385 on an almost vanilla Windows 7 installation.