# Chrome just flagged this site as malware for me **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 13, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352 "2014-05-13T14:39:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/241 "2014-05-17T00:19:22Z")
> [@jdavis](#): > > To resolve the issue the ad slots have been turned off on all pages for all users of the site. Google has been requested to review the site again for possible malware issues. If they find it clean the malware warnings will be removed. That’s not resolving the issue at all. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/242 "2014-05-17T00:21:44Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > This really, really needs to be sorted - Google will not indefinitely keep taking a domain off the blacklist if it keeps finding malware on return visits. The ads are pulled from [dodgysexbot.ru](http://dodgysexbot.ru) or whatever, but it’s [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) that gets blacklisted. I am gutted that [dodgysexrobot.ru](http://dodgysexrobot.ru) hosts malware. I mean, I expect it from the Straight Dope but not there! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/243 "2014-05-17T00:23:26Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I did receive it in IE too. Was I the only one? I don’t see it in IE. Maybe you have some other anti-virus software that uses the Google list? ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/244 "2014-05-17T00:29:49Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > I am gutted that [dodgysexrobot.ru](http://dodgysexrobot.ru) hosts malware. [dodgysexrobot.com](http://dodgysexrobot.com), never mind .ru, seems to be available if anyone has a tenner a year to waste/has a brilliant business plan about dodgy sexy robots ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/245 "2014-05-17T00:33:19Z")
Firefox did the same thing to me just now [![](https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m217/asahlin2/screenshotwarningSDMB_zpscdd22133.jpg) ](https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m217/asahlin2/screenshotwarningSDMB_zpscdd22133.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/246 "2014-05-17T00:57:22Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Firefox did the same thing to me just now > [http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m217/asahlin2/screenshotwarningSDMB\_zpscdd22133.jpg](http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m217/asahlin2/screenshotwarningSDMB_zpscdd22133.jpg) Google has issued a bulletin that searching for crab habitats may lead to websites that promote the training of attack crabs. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/247 "2014-05-17T01:10:35Z")
Firefox ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/248 "2014-05-17T01:30:01Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > If the ads are off and if the ads are the source of problems, then if Google finds the site to be clean will that really mean anything useful? Serious question, no snark intended. No, it will not be useful. The site is clean without the ads. Google will review without the ads, okay it, they’ll turn the ads back on AGAIN, and we’ll continue this cycle. This is the stupidest thing I have ever even heard of. Nice solutions to the problem, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/249 "2014-05-17T01:37:04Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > [dodgysexrobot.com](http://dodgysexrobot.com), never mind .ru, seems to be available if anyone has a tenner a year to waste/has a brilliant business plan about dodgy sexy robots I don’t know why but the dot ru makes it much sexier. Dot com just sounds dodgy. I’ll have to scrounge up some rubles. And Soviet-era sex robots, obviously. Which is what I believe that Jerry and Ed are currently running the server on. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/250 "2014-05-17T01:45:01Z")
I got the warning again too. Using Firefox, but I think it is Google that tags the sites, not the browser company. As far as I could make out from the warning message, they have not actually re-checked the site since the first warning was withdrawn a couple of days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/251 "2014-05-17T01:46:20Z")
Ditto Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/252 "2014-05-17T01:53:26Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > As far as I could make out from the warning message, they have not actually re-checked the site since the first warning was withdrawn a couple of days ago. The message we see is being served by thousands of different servers and there is some lag time for all of them to wind up displaying the same thing when new information gets pushed out to them. Right now the message I see most often has been updated to say: > [@](#): > > **What happened when Google visited this site?** > Of the 27421 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 174 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2014-05-16, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2014-05-16.Malicious software includes 85 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine. Comparing that to the original message from a few days ago, 98 more pages containing malware were discovered since the original warning. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/253 "2014-05-17T02:08:50Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > No, it will not be useful. The site is clean without the ads. Google will review without the ads, okay it, they’ll turn the ads back on AGAIN, and we’ll continue this cycle. This is the stupidest thing I have ever even heard of. Nice solutions to the problem, guys. Yeah, that’s what I thought. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/254 "2014-05-17T02:30:59Z")
I heard that Google is trying to fund some new projects and if enough of us make a donation to Google, they’ll put us on their whitelist. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/255 "2014-05-17T02:52:07Z")
**Safari** If you want to browse without warnings in Safari, you can turn off the warning by command+comma, choose the Security icon, and uncheck Warn when visiting a fraudulent site. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/256 "2014-05-17T03:58:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > **Safari** > > If you want to browse without warnings in Safari, you can turn off the warning by command+comma, choose the Security icon, and uncheck Warn when visiting a fraudulent site. Thank you! This just started happening to me, but I remembered this thread and stopped in to see what the status was since I was stuck at “really fucking annoying”. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/257 "2014-05-17T04:35:51Z")
Other than Jerry’s initial attempts with ads earlier in this thread, the silence is deafening from TPTB on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/258 "2014-05-17T05:56:43Z")
Just saw the warning again. It has been hit or miss all day. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/259 "2014-05-17T05:57:09Z")
This time, Firefox itself is blocking the site for me. The “Ignore this warning” link didn’t do anything. I had to disable warnings in FF to access the site. Previously, it was just when clicking on this site in Google search results. Post 237: > [@jdavis](#): > > To resolve the issue the ad slots have been turned off on all pages for all users of the site. Google has been requested to review the site again for possible malware issues. If they find it clean the malware warnings will be removed. Weren’t the ads already off? You didn’t turn off the ads, see everything is ok, then… turn the ads back on, did you? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/260 "2014-05-17T08:01:28Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I’m one of those stupid posters who use Internet Explorer as a browser. I plead old age and hard to convince to change my habits. > > What are all you people talking about ? What warnings? That would be IE saying “Malware, huh? COME ON IN!” and being all “Whaddya mean you don’t have privileges? Let’s elevate you to Administrator-level access!” because some genius at Microsoft said “Of course everyone who receives a program from any source wishes to run it immediately with no restrictions!” Ever read those warnings in Windows Vista or 7’s User Account Control? They basically say “Hey, this could destroy your computer and the rest of the world with it. DO IT ANYWAY?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352.md?page=14)