# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/401 "2014-05-19T20:44:01Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > 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. What do you know? It’s not like you were a mod or something. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/402 "2014-05-19T20:45:01Z")
Confirming, doing a search via Google I can now go straight to a page here. ---
**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, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/403 "2014-05-19T20:45:16Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > What do you know? It’s not like you were a mod or something. I was huffing a lot of glue back then, though, so I probably just didn’t notice all those awful threads. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/404 "2014-05-19T20:46:47Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > 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. “…abuse that was hurled at the staff in the Pit, on an almost daily basis”: that could apply to posts rather than shiny new threads. Three to four pit threads per month could easily support that kind of volume. I would provide irrefutable evidence, but searching google for SDMB threads scares me too much: my browser keeps delivering stern warnings. //quip!// ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/405 "2014-05-19T21:10:36Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > 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. Yeah, I can recall two occasions when a poster used the c-word on a Mod/Admin, and both were noteworthy events. Mods being abused on an almost daily basis? Didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/406 "2014-05-19T21:50:59Z")
The only time I remember great abuse of a mod/admin, being called a cunt, it changed the language rules in the Pit and created the rule about mod action discussion being only in ATMB. If these same people were being so abused on a daily basis why wasn’t the change made years earlier? ---
**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, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/407 "2014-05-19T21:55:33Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > “…abuse that was hurled at the staff in the Pit, on an almost daily basis”: that could apply to posts rather than shiny new threads. Three to four pit threads per month could easily support that kind of volume. > > I would provide irrefutable evidence, but searching google for SDMB threads scares me too much: my browser keeps delivering stern warnings. //quip!// I’m sure you’re right and much of this horrifying abuse was consolidated in weekly threads rather than daily ones. What’s strange, though, is that if one goes back and just looks at thread titles, for example by using this link: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&order=desc&page=51](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&order=desc&page=51) It seems like one can go several pages without even seeing the staff mentioned, let alone abused via thread titles that would bring a blush to the face of the most hardened trooper. And that’s months worth of threads, which is weird given the near-daily nature of the abuse… I’m probably just not reading the forum right, though. **aldiboronti’s** links will no doubt clear this misunderstanding right up. ---
**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, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/408 "2014-05-19T22:16:59Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I’m sure you’re right and much of this horrifying abuse was consolidated in weekly threads rather than daily ones. What’s strange, though, is that if one goes back and just looks at thread titles, for example by using this link: > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&order=desc&page=51](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=5&order=desc&page=51) > > It seems like one can go several pages without even seeing the staff mentioned, let alone abused via thread titles that would bring a blush to the face of the most hardened trooper. And that’s months worth of threads, which is weird given the near-daily nature of the abuse… > > I’m probably just not reading the forum right, though. **aldiboronti’s** links will no doubt clear this misunderstanding right up. C’mon, allow a chap a little hyperbole. This isn’t GQ. I don’t even know any troopers, hardy or otherwise. And OK, I may be remembering a couple of bad days and allowing that to colour my general recollection. I am suitably contrite. There was definitely some bad shit thrown at the staff though and it was not a rare occurrence. ---
**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, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/409 "2014-05-19T22:33:23Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > C’mon, allow a chap a little hyperbole. This isn’t GQ. I don’t even know any troopers, hardy or otherwise. And OK, I may be remembering a couple of bad days and allowing that to colour my general recollection. I am suitably contrite. There was definitely some bad shit thrown at the staff though and it was not a rare occurrence. I’m a big fan of hyperbole, but there comes a point where it crosses over into straight-up fiction. It’s nice that you’ve retracted your original claim, but in your last sentence you simply replaced with a slightly vaguer one which is equally untrue, so I’m not sure how much progress has actually been made here, fighting ignorance-wise. Seriously, click on the link I supplied and page through ten pages or so of thread titles. Click on any link related to the staff and note the tone of the thread. I think you’ll find things were generally far more civil in the Pit back then than they are in the ATMB now, for the most part. The narrative that the rules change came about in response to a consistent pattern of staff abuse is simply false. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/410 "2014-05-19T22:54:33Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Yeah, I can recall two occasions when a poster used the c-word on a Mod/Admin, and both were noteworthy events. Mods being abused on an almost daily basis? Didn’t happen. I see the poster you responded to has (while I was composing this) retracted, but dammit, I did the web-searches and wanna post my damn documentation. 😉 To the best of my knowledge you’re completely correct, two (2) admin/mod types were ever called “cunts” in any sort of serious way. [One was Veb way back in 2006 or so.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=351988)/ [The other was Lynn, who was upset that someone had made a post that wasn’t to her political liking and pulled one of her famous “I’m making up a rule that you now retroactively broke, so you’re now IN TROUBLE, buster” rulings\* that she was notorious for.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=496205) But back on topic–while Google does have the occasion false positive, given that people have been complaining that the Dope’s sketchy ad-servers have been, at minimum [Serving Up Malware since 2010 (it’s taking longer than they thought)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=567939), it seems far more likely that the SDMB finally got caught rather than Google trying to oppress the SDMB. \*Also see her banning (later changed to temp-banning) of Esprix for a retroactive “No humor in the Pit” rule that he didn’t violate when he posted, since she hadn’t actually made it up yet. ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/411 "2014-05-19T23:06:28Z")
Damn, I’m positive for instance that I recall one poster in particular who made a habit of starting threads in the Pit abusing the mods but I’ll concede that memory is a notorious trickster so, in the spirit of the fight against ignorance, I’ll withdraw my final assertion in the last post. But didn’t \*\*Ed \*\* move board criticism to ATMB specifically because of staff abuse or am I misremembering that too? (It wouldn’t surprise me given my batting average so far). And **Fenris** , thanks for the documentation. It completes my rout but it’s good to see the evidence. ---
**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, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/412 "2014-05-19T23:33:25Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > But didn’t \*\*Ed \*\* move board criticism to ATMB specifically because of staff abuse or am I misremembering that too? (It wouldn’t surprise me given my batting average so far). No, on this point you are correct, that was the reason given. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/413 "2014-05-19T23:41:53Z")
> [@rsa](#): > > Don’t know, but I would guess that for that one time you accessed the site from the google search page or some other search page that’s checking the blacklist. And since that first time you have accessed some other way? Or never left the site? I never access the site from a Google search page. I have it bookmarked, in both IE and Firefox. Usually I open it in Firefox, but I still check IR from time to time, particularly now. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/414 "2014-05-20T00:51:33Z")
Just been catching up on the updates since I was last able to log in, hoping for an official comment. Disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/415 "2014-05-20T01:14:48Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > 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. Saying it happens to every website might be hyperbole, but I’ve gotten the Big Red Warning pages on probably a good half-dozen websites over the past few years. Most were similar to here in that they started a hobby/sidelines and got big enough that they need ad revenue to cover hosting and maybe get the founder and one or two other people some sort of salary to maintain the site. Saw a Slashdot article yesterday indicating that malvertising was up something like 200% in the past year, and one maybe a year back measuring that ads were now more likely to have malware than the stereotypical “dodgy porn site,” so it’s absolutely a big industry-wide problem. The SDMB may just be at the forefront of it. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/416 "2014-05-20T02:23:18Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’m assuming that **Jerry** has switched the ads on again and that’s why the warning is back? I never see any ads (thank the gods) so it’s hard to tell. I’m posting this with Safari that I’m running bare naked of extensions, including Adblock. There are no ads at 9:22 p.m. central daylight time. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/417 "2014-05-20T02:30:05Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > just switch to paid-only to post and be done with it already Like hell I’d ever spend a dime on a website that serves up malware to its customers. :dubious: (Adblockers, people – I can’t stress this enough.) ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/418 "2014-05-20T02:43:56Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > 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. “Soviet Era Sex Robot” sounds like the best custom title ever. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/419 "2014-05-20T02:57:34Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > “Soviet Era Sex Robot” sounds like the best custom title ever. [Я твой слуга (Ja tvoi sluga) (I’m your slave) Я твой работник (Ja tvoi rabotnik) (I’m your worker)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ) Kraftwerk - The Robots, something that **Brainiac4** would appreaciate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chrome-just-flagged-this-site-as-malware-for-me/688352/420 "2014-05-20T03:49:16Z")
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