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Title: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Rai Tei on March 31, 2020, 06:58:21 pm

Hey all, it's been a while.

Since I came back here, I get warnings from my Bitdefender antivirus all the time.
Is this worth a look?

Here are some screenshots, there are like 10 of the same from the last one.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KzV5WGF4/ss1.png)

(https://i.postimg.cc/76C30F74/ss2.png)

(https://i.postimg.cc/FRJS7j5s/ss3.png)

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: XGargoyle on March 31, 2020, 07:15:12 pm

are you sure these notifications happen when visiting MFG, or could they have been caused by visiting another site?

The notifications seem to point to addresses found in banners or popups, which are not generated by MFG's server.

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: walt on March 31, 2020, 11:50:59 pm

Kelexo ... that's a user here, no?

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Rai Tei on April 01, 2020, 12:02:28 am

@:XGargoyle Yes, I am 100% sure it happens when I visit MFG forums.
But I do know Bitdefender can be very sensitive, so users with images hosted on other sites may trigger this.

walt said, March 31, 2020, 11:50:59 pm

Kelexo ... that's a user here, no?

Yes, probably as I expected, Bitdefender being whiny over hosted images.

It triggers when I go to https://mugenguild.com/forum/your-releases-older-mugen.309
Where DrKelexo made a post: https://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/jolj-knuckle-fighter-188053.0.html

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Orochi Gill on April 01, 2020, 12:14:34 am

I'd PM him about that one if possible.

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: DeathScythe on April 01, 2020, 12:29:33 am

When I try to load his profile pic I get a warning message on my browser.
"Alert: Potential security risk ahead".
his pfp link: https://kelexo.thedailypos.org/image/avatar/supremefish.png

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Orochi Gill on April 01, 2020, 12:32:28 am

Yeah, it's something on his end definitely. Same here.

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Rai Tei on April 01, 2020, 12:50:32 am

Well, although it's on the user's end, it does trigger a lot on different pages.
Maybe I should see if I can disable these notifications instead.

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Cyberman on April 01, 2020, 08:53:39 pm

I understand the error. This means this forum should be upgraded and all of you will be assimilated. You will be like us.

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Valodim on April 03, 2020, 05:37:31 pm

looks like kelexo's server is serving an incorrect tls certificate.  I removed that link for now. But it is a bit problematic that we are linking to external domains at all for https integrity. might need to do something about that.

that said, bitdefender is being pretty annoying there, browsers just don't display that image so there is no risk there. I guess anti-malware applications are incentivized to have a bit of a false positive rate, to justify their existence.

Title: Re: "Suspicious content blocked" by Bitdefender
Post by: Rai Tei on April 07, 2020, 11:39:21 pm

Yeah, I know, Bitdefender has always been kinda whiny in that regard.
You can't control what user do here unless....

Cyberman said, April 01, 2020, 08:53:39 pm

I understand the error. This means this forum should be upgraded and all of you will be assimilated. You will be like us.

That's a good point you got.