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General => Lounge => Topic started by: gtbird on October 29, 2014, 04:32:10 PM

Title: NATO message board
Post by: gtbird on October 29, 2014, 04:32:10 PM
Is NATO experiencing a virus? When I try to access it from work, it is blocked with a message stating "MALICIOUS CONTENT BLOCKED".

Rick
Title: NATO message board
Post by: TOM Renzo on October 29, 2014, 04:48:31 PM
Nope they hate everyone.
Title: NATO message board
Post by: skrimace on October 29, 2014, 04:59:45 PM
That usually happens when a spammer successfully injects malicious code into a forum or comment.  Webmasters have to be careful how they handle data from users.  For example, if this site was broken, and I posted



You'd be directed to example.com immediately when you tried to read the thread.  Browser developers keep databases of sites that have been reported as an attack site (as well as specifically crawling for attack sites) and warns the webmaster and any user that tries to access the site.