Simviation under attack???

[Blackbird686]

I went over to Simviation this morning to look in on the forums and I got a big white banner from my Norton AV stating that the website was listed as dangerous in bright red letters. May be an FP, maybe not but I've never had problems with that site before. Just an FYI.

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[wombat666]

Might be a false positive IMHO.
I've had my Firefox and Webroot security warn me off SOH until I added it to trusted sites.

[n4gix]

The site is working just fine here...

[Blackbird686]

Hmmm, just tried to go there again... same thing. Reckon I'll dive a little deeper here. Thanks for the replies.

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[speedy70]

Avast premium and Malwarebytes both say it is ok.

Cheers Chris.
Norton used to be renowned for false positves but I thought the new version had cured that.

[Milton Shupe]

No problems from Firefox on the main site or forums here.

[Milton Shupe]

I spoke to Pete at Simviation. He said:

"Regarding the 'malware' - this has to do with something at the HJG site which made google associate simviation (also) with 'malware' .... see this thread http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/threa ... ttack-page


Together we fixed the problem by removing the offending file at HJG but some users cache was still carrying the warning.
New folder was created for HJG and asked users there to clear cache or run system scans - so any reports by now are false positives.

Simviation files are all scanned before approval and it had nothing to do with simviation site or files.

I have not heard of any recent reports and we have asked several people who did have a problem to test (in HJG) - all reported OK now.

Hope this helps and thanks for the feedback."

So, for those reporting, clear your cache.

[Blackbird686]

Thanks for the update, Milton. The site, both Simvi and HJG are working fine. Good to know I wasn't loosing my marbles... (yet).

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