SE++ getting flagged by Chrome as possibly containing malware.

Dronus86

forums.penny-arcade.com contains content from membres.lycos.fr, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.
Google has found malicious software may be installed onto your computer if you proceed. If you've visited this site in the past or you trust this site, it's possible that it has just recently been compromised by a hacker. You should not proceed, and perhaps try again tomorrow or go somewhere else.
We have already notified membres.lycos.fr that we found malware on the site. For more about the problems found on membres.lycos.fr, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.
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If you understand that visiting this site may harm your computer, proceed anyway.

Admittedly, that's more accurately claiming that membres.lycos.fr distributes malware, but I figured you guys might want a heads up.

ultimakay

I was seeing this just a minute or 2 ago but it seems to be fixed now.

Dronus86

Still happening for me. I'll try it again in ~5.

a5ehren

I'm getting it too.

Aneurhythmia

Yep.

Gigazombie Cybermage

Me too

Druhim

Ditto

warban

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 735 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 264 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-10-28, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-10-28.
Malicious software includes 119 trojan(s), 56 exploit(s), 51 scripting exploit(s).

Malicious software is hosted on 70 domain(s), including cg79wo20kl92doowfn01oqpo9mdieowv5tyj.com/, onlyfind.net/, seaarch.info/.

59 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including membres.multimania.fr/lkdjflskf3dj/, sedoparking.com/, traffbox.com/.

This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS25074 (INETBONE), AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone)..

Druhim

Seems to be ok now for me.

Dronus86

I just managed to get through, here's to hoping it's fixed.

zerzhul

In the past this has been due to someone using an unsafe avatar. Not sure if that has anything to do with this specific instance.

Druhim

Yeah, a user had his avatar hosted on the site that flagged the warning but he's since corrected that.

Essee

There is like a 99% chance that it's somebody's avatar, and the only reason I'd expect it would be fixed now is if the person with the unsafe avatar is no longer the last poster in a thread. If people figure out who it is, we can warn them about the problem (and/or mods can take care of the problem more easily).

Edit: And there we go, then. Huzzah!

DoctorArch

Got a new warning on Chrome today when trying to access D&D: forums.penny-arcade.com contains content from www.wowpedia.org.

skeldare

Just checked the source for the D&D forum, and looks like Astraphobia's avatar is stored on wowepdia.org.

The Dude With Herpes

I'm getting the wowpedia.org flag too.

EDIT: it's not just for SE++ either; it's for random threads throughout the forums.

Malkor

Same. I got it for the D+D Presidential thread.

fightinfilipino

Astraphobia's profile page immediately brings up the warning on Chrome/WinVista32bit saying that wowpedia.org is a known distributor of malware.

maybe asking @Astraphobia nicely to change or rehost his avatar as a temp fix?

End

I guess a major ad network was compromised and was serving malware, which caused a lot of domains using that ad network to get flagged as hosting malware themselves.

No actual problem here, of course.

Essee

Yeah, a major ad network Curse (owns Wowpedia, MMO-Champion, etc.) was using got compromised so it's not surprising that avatars from their sites were getting flagged. I think they've sorted things out with Google now, so people wouldn't need to change their avatars at this point. But probably should, because hotlinking is usually bad.