A Revolution is the Solution
Looks like the comments and your blog solved that little issue:
From http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites...te.org/summary/
"We have investigated and determined that the red download facet derives from forum posts and HijackThis logs. The overall site rating will change to green in the coming weeks.
Posted at 08/31/2006-11:16:23 AM by SiteAdvisor_Staff, SiteAdvisor Staff , View profile [ Reputation score: 9 / 9"
I don't think its helped the LS Forums though. They seem to still be on the list as unsafe.
I missed that Lavasoft got redlisted as well. I left a comment on the Lavasoft support forum one. I noticed I now have a ranking of 3 at SiteAdvisor. So my comments might actually have a little weight.
I checked the regular Lavasoft domains and they are all green. The forum got redlisted because of links in Hijackthis logs most likely.
Add Cexx.org, MalwareBytes and dknoppix to the mix @ PG
Who profits by all this i wonder ?
the Adware and spyware and Slimeware makers thats who
They will in the short run Mills.
Depending on how long it takes for SA to correct all sites affected.
It's just the bad 016 lines in HJT logs that has caused this. That and SA maybe lowering their settings.
Hi everyone, this is Tom from SiteAdvisor engineering. We just released a big new set of data with much better detection of adware/virus downloads. However, we also marked a lot of great security sites red accidentally. What happened is that as we expanded our crawling capacity to check more and more pages on sites, we ended up crawling forums. Naturally, a lot of forums have links to bad sites or bad downloads.
Unfortunately, we didn’t catch this before the data went live…the good news is that these results were only public for about 24 hours before we fixed them. Thanks to everyone who logged on to siteadvisor.com and left reviewer feedback—this was an important way for us to realize that something was wrong.
We’ve done a couple of things to make sure this doesn’t happen again:
1) we’ve taught our crawlers what forums look like and we ignore anything we find in them
2) we’ve added all of the security sites that we had these false-positives on to our QA regression tests to make sure they don’t accidentally go red again
3) we’re teaching our scoring systems that security sites are allowed to link to bad sites or to bad downloads without making the security site itself a bad site
Anyway, thanks for using SiteAdvisor and sorry for the trouble,
Tom
Excellent stuff Tom. It's good to see an openness that is often lacking in computer circles.
"in the coming weeks"... surely they can update sooner than that?
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