[Forum] Antivirus reaction to VB4.1.5

[monraisse]

Hi, I have Vbulletin 4.1.5 for my forum and people tell me they get a warn message from their browsers saying 'warning this might be a malicious website'. So I would like to ask do you know where that comes from and what I could do to correct it. From my research, I had this pop up anti virus warn only when I browse my forum under a pc. With the mac, no problems. It only happens with a pc and especially with microsoft internet explorer. The message had the Zone Alarm (Zone lab Firewall http://www.zonealarm.com/) design, but I can't guarantee it has anything to do with them.

Thanks very much

[Sirius76]

I just discovered I have the same problem

Has anyone answered you? Can someone please respond with an answer.

Thanks!

[whitey10tc]

out a little more detail and maybe a link to the forum, it's hard to say.

they get a warn message from their browsers saying 'warning this might be a malicious website'.

Is this a google message? or what?

The message had the Zone Alarm (Zone lab Firewall http://www.zonealarm.com/) design, but I can't guarantee it has anything to do with them.

Do you use zone alarm? Do you run any advertisements?

[Sirius76]

I can't speak for Monraisse but one of my occurrences involved McAfee. It was some sort of company network firewall or something. My website was blocked by it for being "malicious"

[Wayne Luke]

Please see this thread: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...Not-Right-Here!

[TheNewOne]

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/....net/forum.php

[Sirius76]

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/....net/forum.php

Great. Thanks. The only anomaly the scan revealed i have outdated software. I'm using vB 4.1.10.

Anything I can do? Or should know? Would that alone get me blocked?

[monraisse]

Hello guys and thanks for these answers.
I've visited the links and ran your security tests but my site looks clean.

out a little more detail and maybe a link to the forum, it's hard to say. Is this a google message? or what?

No it's a message generated by the Zone Alarm firewall. I thought maybe the problem was coming from my place so I asked a friend living in the Us to visit my website www.teenbar.net and she says she also has this 'warning malicious website' popup from her firewall. I invited people from a board who said 'thanks for inviting us but we got a warn message when visiting your site

Do you use zone alarm? Do you run any advertisements?

Yes I use Zone Alarm, however I do not run any advertisment. I have registered in Zone alarm boards to ask if somebody already complained for that matter. I will keep you updated. Thanks again

[Illuvatar]

Check your Footer template and see if you have a "feedyourbrain" link right at the top of it......if so....delete it...don't even revert...just delete the whole thing.

I found out that our site got hacked (opening a seperate thread as to how) and found that this a-hole hacker would go through each of my styles and insert a link into the footer template. Styles and Templates>Style Manager>Edit Templates>Footer

I had been getting malware alerts from Google as well as Trojan blocks from Norton....my host couldn't find it...we hardened the site by putting up a firewall and changing all the passwords, etc. and still it persisted. Since VB runs my whole site I figured it had to be somewhere and just stumbled across the footer template marked in red shortly after upgrading to 4.1.10 and there is was! I deleted it and had Google rescan the site to clear it off the blacklist. It turned up a couple more times before I found out the access point this guy was using.

Hope this helps you out.....