# 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:** 20
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/381 "2014-05-19T14:46:59Z")
> [@Astral\_Rejection](#): > > One of the biggest hassles with google throwing up red flags is that I now cannot search the SDMB in any fashion. The board’s search function times out every time I try to use it (502 bad gateway), and google search results throw up the “warning: malware” page, which on mobile I can’t see how to get past. The page says I can continue on, but at least on mobile there doesn’t seem to be a button or link to actually do so. You can use Yahoo (and possibly others) to search instead of Google. Use IE or Opera as your browser (not Chrome or FF). Yahoo accepts the same syntax as Google. To search for “SDMB malware” enter the following in Yahoo search: site:boards.straightdope.com sdmb malware ETA: Note sure how this works on mobile. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/382 "2014-05-19T15:08:26Z")
> [@rsa](#): > > You can use Yahoo (and possibly others) to search instead of Google. Use IE or Opera as your browser (not Chrome or FF). Yahoo accepts the same syntax as Google. > > To search for “SDMB malware” enter the following in Yahoo search: > > site:boards.straightdope.com sdmb malware > > ETA: Note sure how this works on mobile. Or, the powers that be could fix the problem once and for all, so users don’t have to rely on kludges like this. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/383 "2014-05-19T15:14:38Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Or, the powers that be could fix the problem once and for all, so users don’t have to rely on kludges like this. While I agree the underlying problem needs to be fixed, how is suggesting that someone use Yahoo instead of Chrome & Google a “kludge”? I thought some dopers might find the information useful. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/384 "2014-05-19T16:10:11Z")
Since when are we[not allowed to pit board administration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723706)? I have never felt the need to pit them, but I must say I agreed with the linked pit both in content and tone. I am shocked that we cannot take board administrators and moderators to task for offenses real and imagined. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/385 "2014-05-19T16:13:14Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > It takes time for the clean list to propagate. There’s no way for us peons to tell if that is why we’re still getting the warnings or for some other reason (like Google doesn’t trust us anymore). That’s a good point. As a paying member using Adblock Plus I can’t tell whether the ads have been switched back on or not and I’m loth to come here unprotected to find out. Can anyone tell me if they’re still seeing ads? ---
**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 19, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/386 "2014-05-19T16:14:03Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Since when are we[not allowed to pit board administration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723706)? I have never felt the need to pit them, but I must say I agreed with the linked pit both in content and tone. I am shocked that we cannot take board administrators and moderators to task for offenses real and imagined. It’s in the sticky- “Revised Pit Rules” that discussions of moderator actions (including criticisms) can only be in ATMB, with ATMB appropriate language. Mods can be pitted as general posters, however, just not based on their mod actions. > **[Revised Forum Rules for the BBQ Pit: read this before posting](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507985)** > > The BBQ Pit is the forum for rants about the outside world or quarrels between posters - often the first turns into the second. Although the standards of discourse are looser than in the other forums, the Pit is NOT a free-for-all - you don’t have to... ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/387 "2014-05-19T16:15:33Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Since when are we[not allowed to pit board administration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723706)? I have never felt the need to pit them, but I must say I agreed with the linked pit both in content and tone. I am shocked that we cannot take board administrators and moderators to task for offenses real and imagined. It’s at the bottom of [this BBQ Pit rules sticky.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507985) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/388 "2014-05-19T16:41:05Z")
Bah, humbug! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/389 "2014-05-19T16:47:53Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > That’s a good point. As a paying member using Adblock Plus I can’t tell whether the ads have been switched back on or not and I’m loth to come here unprotected to find out. Can anyone tell me if they’re still seeing ads? Used a browser with no AdBlock and while not logged in, and I do not see any ads. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/390 "2014-05-19T17:12:52Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Since when are we[not allowed to pit board administration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=723706)? I have never felt the need to pit them, but I must say I agreed with the linked pit both in content and tone. I am shocked that we cannot take board administrators and moderators to task for offenses real and imagined. You should have seen the sort of abuse that was hurled at the staff in the Pit, on an almost daily basis. Even the thread titles would bring a blush to the face of the hardiest trooper. They were cunts, motherfuckers, assholes, shitheads. This for making a decision that a poster didn’t like. The only thing that surprises me is that Ed didn’t change the rules sooner. And board administrators and moderators can still be taken to task in ATMB, you simply can’t hurl personal abuse at them while doing so. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/391 "2014-05-19T17:38:46Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > There is no security hole on the main content website. There’s really no way you could know this, and no reason to expect it. The site runs javascript from the ad provider, which means that if the ad provider doesn’t properly isolate the ad content they’re injecting, it could end up executing javascript code in the context of the SDMB content as well, which is most certainly a security problem with respect to SDMB accounts and any personal information that might be in your account. I really think anybody clicking past the malware warnings and surfing the site as if nothing’s going on are being foolish. Especially if you think you’re ok in the interim while they have ads disabled: They’ve already demonstrated their lack of concern by intentionally flipping the ads back on just to see how bad it is, and I also notice that the ad code is not actually completely disabled (they are still loading javascript from rubicon – I don’t know if they intended this to still be there or not, but it’s there). And finally, even if you trust that the ads **are** truly and correctly disabled, you have no way of knowing if/when they’ll get turned back on. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/392 "2014-05-19T18:14:06Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > The only thing that surprises me is that Ed didn’t change the rules sooner. I heard that he _tried_, but had a program on his computer that interfered with his attempts. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/393 "2014-05-19T18:27:39Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > You should have seen the sort of abuse that was hurled at the staff in the Pit, on an almost daily basis. Even the thread titles would bring a blush to the face of the hardiest trooper. They were cunts, motherfuckers, assholes, shitheads. This for making a decision that a poster didn’t like. The only thing that surprises me is that Ed didn’t change the rules sooner. And board administrators and moderators can still be taken to task in ATMB, you simply can’t hurl personal abuse at them while doing so. Oh, I remember some of the threads. But for all the detractors, there were also defenders that would shout down the most egregious cases of mod bashing. I didn’t note the change when it occurred, not being the type to pit specific people in this community in most cases. I was just surprised is all. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/394 "2014-05-19T18:37:43Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > That’s a good point. As a paying member using Adblock Plus I can’t tell whether the ads have been switched back on or not and I’m loth to come here unprotected to find out. Can anyone tell me if they’re still seeing ads? IMO it would be an extraordinarily bad idea for anyone to view this site without adblock protection. (Pretty much ever, but especially right now.) Still getting the warning. The assurances that this happens to any site that gets ad revenue ring false to me. I frequent a lot of sites all over the Internet that use ads, and nothing like this has ever happened on any of them. I won’t, and couldn’t, say that none of them has ever had a problem with a bad ad, or even a handful of them. But a problem to the extent that Google flags the entire site (and this is after nearly-constant user complaints about malware going on for _years_), and this problem is allowed to continue for a week and counting? No. This is particular to the SDMB. As far as being glad you have a Mac: Well, yeah, I love my Mac. But I’m not confident enough in it to disable malware warnings in all of my browsers, which is what I would have to do to make the SDMB usable right now. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/395 "2014-05-19T19:07:40Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > As far as being glad you have a Mac: Well, yeah, I love my Mac. But I’m not confident enough in it to disable malware warnings in all of my browsers, which is what I would have to do to make the SDMB usable right now. Yeah a Mac isn’t going to stop you from seeing the same html warning page the rest of the internet is seeing, but in the event the malware writers managed to get malware past adblock, it’s almost a certainty it would bounce off your Mac harmlessly. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/396 "2014-05-19T19:17:20Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Yeah a Mac isn’t going to stop you from seeing the same html warning page the rest of the internet is seeing, but in the event the malware writers managed to get malware past adblock, it’s almost a certainty it would bounce off your Mac harmlessly. It’s not so much that it “bounces off the Mac harmlessly”-It’s that it was never aimed at the Mac in the first place. Why take aim at the scrawny doe when the 30 point buck is in your sights? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/397 "2014-05-19T19:18:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It’s not so much that it “bounces off the Mac harmlessly”-It’s that it was never aimed at the Mac in the first place. Why take aim at the scrawny doe when the 30 point buck is in your sights? Right. It can be debated whether apple security is better, but it can’t be argued that hardly anyone bothers figuring out how to exploit it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/398 "2014-05-19T19:40:59Z")
Warning’s gone. Adblock is currently blocking two ads on the site, of the usual four. Let’s not turn those other two ads back on, mkay? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/399 "2014-05-19T20:29:55Z")
I tried to do a search of SDMB on google and it returned some promising links, but I was prevented from clicking on them by a google malware warning. It wouldn’t let me click through the warning. I am on iPad using Safari. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/400 "2014-05-19T20:37:42Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > You should have seen the sort of abuse that was hurled at the staff in the Pit, on an almost daily basis. Even the thread titles would bring a blush to the face of the hardiest trooper. They were cunts, motherfuckers, assholes, shitheads. This for making a decision that a poster didn’t like. The only thing that surprises me is that Ed didn’t change the rules sooner. And board administrators and moderators can still be taken to task in ATMB, you simply can’t hurl personal abuse at them while doing so. It’s interesting that something like this would have happened on an almost daily basis and I didn’t even notice it. On the plus side, such a claim would be almost trivially easy to prove, so maybe you could pick a random month from before the rule change and link to 15-20 threads that meet your description? I don’t mind waiting, I’m sure it won’t take you long, given the scope of the problem you describe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352.md?page=21)