Site blocked due to Malware

[strike2867]

I tried to go on the site this morning at work, and the filter blocked it. The reason given was along the lines of "This site is known to have Malware".

 

[yogoshio]

It's because of the advertising programs. Tracks your browser history.

 

[strike2867]

It's because of the advertising programs. Tracks your browser history.

It's possible, but I doubt it.

 

[xtlosx]

yup, it's called a drive by exploit, and uses well known content providers like Akamai and any others to insert "malware" into the content stream. Funny thing is, your organization is probably a customer of ours....

 

[strike2867]

yup, it's called a drive by exploit, and uses well known content providers like Akamai and any others to insert "malware" into the content stream. Funny thing is, your organization is probably a customer of ours....

More likely the other way around, but possible.

 

[yogoshio]

Another thing I've noticed is sometimes when I click a button on the forum a pop-up window gets blocked, and I get kicked off when on my company laptop. I'm willing to bet there's some advertising program we don't know about at works.