you are only guessing, and there are a lot of holes in your logic.
your IE "case in point" also doesn't have any bearing on the issue.

the most likely cause is a malicious ad on the ad network NAM uses. but that is also just a guess.

just rumor, nothing more.

disappointed that guesses and rumor are all we have to go on, though. been a few days now and we are still patiently waiting for an official explanation from NAM. doesn't give much confidence.
(you'd think they'd be more open and transparent with the users about something like this, eh?)

 

I heard it was a government conspiracy to bring down the MINI community.

 

Yes it is, but as you said, I wouldn't simply dismiss the warning as a "false positive". Something happend to get them blacklisted which was my point.

As for NAM, they should let folks know what happened as it really can affect everyone that visits the site.

 

just disable the setting, i am getting it now as well. I dont know what i would do with out it!

 

Oh, god. Really?

Maybe they don't know exactly what caused it. Maybe they're working hard on tracking it down. Maybe there's really nothing to report.

Transparent, indeed.

Unless you're an Alliance member, I really can't see what you've got to complain about. You're not paying anything to use this site and the site owners don't owe you anything.

 

You didn't really say the vast majority of contributors to this site simply don't matter, did you? I think I'll pay my way with some content:

In any event, you're probably right in that the cause for the Google blacklist might not be easy to ID. Nine total pages our of 721 crawled could be the same bad ad on several pages or it could by a specific post made to several threads.

 

One other thing - Google's crawl algorithm is know only to them, but they crawled the site twice (on Sunday and then again on Monday) and found baddies both times. They seem to have put crawling again on a back burner.

 

If the cause wasn't easy to ID, then why has NAM said they already asked for reconsideration. Seems clear they know the cause, but even if they didn't, they could at least say that.

And regarding "just disable it"... that's not a smart move at all, as discussed previously. If you want to be reckless with your browser, fine; but advocating that to everyone else is nothing short of irresponsible.

 

No. I didn't say they didn't matter, I said they're not owed anything by site owner/management.

 

Not a False Positive.
My Norton log had a lot of activity since 10/3, they got in and changed some settings on my PC and it would not stay in sleep mode. Then last Friday the intrusion attacks began, one every 5 minutes or so from about 4 different URLs. I re-booted with the system disc and that restart seemed to fix it. And what about "gRay rAvEn", someone got in and changed his "NAM fav's" to show the logo of Motoring Underground.

I had been shopping for an anti-sway bar and clicked adds on the page, that is probably where I got the stuff.

I'm on my phone now and I don't want to go through that again. I guess I should have been using FF or Chrome insted of ie.

 

one time I couldn't open an e-mail because my anti-virus program kept saying it is a virus. I really wanted to open that e-mail so I uninstalled my anti-virus program so I could open the e-mail. pesky anti-virus program.

 

Excuse me? I visit this site and trust that they are not infecting my computer with rogue scripts. As a non-Alliance member I have a LOT to complain about.

 

NAM was also being blocked by Safari and Opera browsers. Good to see the issue appears to be resolved.

I hope motorers went out driving instead of banging on their computers while this was going on.

 

Still not resolved. Might also want to check the amount of traffic coming and going to NAM. Seems to be loading slower and slower.

 

FF is still blocking.

 

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/d...nmotoring.com/

Not good.

 

Owner should fix it .

 

I don't get this warning and this issue is posted in the wrong place

 

Not a false positive. My Avast identified overskka.co.cc (identified earlier in the thread) as malware a few days before Firefox blocked NAM as a 'reported attack site'.

 

I get this warning.

 

There is already a thread on this...

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ed-attack.html

If you have IE you will not get an error. Why? Because Microsoft does not use this service. Thus they let you drive right to the site that could possibly infect your PC. FF and Safari users are warned which is what you are seeing. According to Drew (moderator) they have corrected the problem and are waiting for Google to remove them from the blacklist.

 

Oh, good grief.

I guess I need to be very, very specific. They're working on it. The site owners don't owe us a play-by-play, hour-by-hour dialogue of what exactly is happening. They're not keeping mum because they're hiding something. It's not a conspiracy. They're losing money because people can't get here. The ad servers aren't serving up as many page views, people aren't clicking on the ads. That's costing them money that's needed to keep the site open and free. It's in their best interests to get this sorted out as quickly as possible.

They'll update us when they feel it's necessary and productive.

 

Don't snap at me because I responded to your poorly written post. It was very clear what you said. Next time read what you write before you post it.

As for the rest, I never said that they owed us an explanation but it would be nice to know what is going on as peoples computers might be infected. Do they owe us a play by play? No, but they do need to tell us what exactly users might be facing and let them know if there is a possibility that their machines need some TLC.

 

The exploit/hack that was done to this site is an issue related to the software platform that this site runs on. Other sites, including another Mini site, that use a similar software platform has also been attacked, hacked, and subsequently patched in the past few weeks.
It is just dumb bad luck if the site a webmaster runs gets inspected by the Google web crawler before your site gets flagged...here, being a large site, that must be frequently indexed by Google, it was checked, mostly likely a couple times in short succession, perhaps as the techs were already working on fixing it.
The management at "the other site" that had a similar issues knows this stuff happens...no software is perfect...patches get applied, and sometimes folks find a "zero day exploit", an un-patched, newly discovered flaw, and take advantage of it. Crap happens...crap gets fixed, and you security umbrella works as a buffer to help+protect you and your computer.
Keep you computer patched, up to date, and if a site has an unknown issues, be-careful...
Remember, Firefox and chrome was just tring to protect you...more than IE ever did!! As with any safeguard, it takes a few days to verify all has been set right, and ensure there is no threat.


Edit: I would like to state that in all my research, about 90% says this type of attack is mainly an attempt to steal Add revenue....IT USUALLY DOES NOT have the pages installing "bad software"...it is still possible..but most reports of this attack..going back to FEBRUARY has to theft of advertising revenue. The Software support people do recommend that users change passwords, since the installer of the hack did gain unauthorized access to deep portions of the software...and anything was possible.
Thanks Matt, AKA DR O for tracking down the support sites, and a few useful threads to add the ones I had found!!

 

Still getting the warnings... pretty annoying.