Malware-infected thread?

A few minutes ago, I was browsing through the Free Forex Trading Systems forum, and I clicked on this thread:

Google immediately threw up a malware alert —

I tried several times to open that thread, and got the same malware alert each time.

Nothing else on the Babypips site seems to be upsetting Google.

Is anyone else seeing this?

No it let me in fine and our firewalls at work here (gov’t) are quite strict in what it will allow us to access, although we’re using IE, not Chrome. Maybe one of the advertisers that thread was trying to display uses a webhost that has hosted another webiste that was suspicious…so then all websites they host gets treated as suspicious.

I can confirm that I get the same message as Clint does when I use a chrome browser.
I tried it with IE and it works fine, so maybe IE just isn’t picking it up.

It’s now six hours later, and I tried that thread again. Still getting the same malware alert. However…

I discovered that I can access all of the 137-page thread normally — except page 1.

The Google malware alert is triggered by something on page 1 (and only page 1) of that thread. Weird, huh?

I’ll let Pipstradamus sort this out. I’m sure his nifty crystal ball has the answer.

This is the second time in the past several months that my Chrome browser has gotten into a snit over something on the Babypips site. I don’t recall having this problem with Chrome on any other website. I have to wonder: What does Chrome have against Babypips?

p.s.— Sweet Pip and piptronix: Thanks for taking a look.

Hey all,

This was the result of a trackback link listed at the bottom of the page in an admin section. We received the same alert on the 13th of this month and proceeded to delete the trackback link, which was flagged for moderation. The strange thing in this case is that all trackback links are moderated and none are approved or published. No one but admins can see the trackback link section.

Chrome likes to look out for its users which we applaud. But with forums especially, we can get flagged for simply linking to an infected website.

If you click through the malware prompts, this is what you get:


As you can see, we’re not currently listed as suspicious, we haven’t hosted malicious software over the past 90 days, but we have been listed for suspicious activity 1 time in the last 90 days (referring to the occurrence on the 13th).

BabyPips.com is hosted with SoftLayer (AKA ThePlanet).

We’ll see what we can do to get Google and Chrome to remove this block. Thanks!

Pipstradamus

You get the same flag with firefox and avg’s surfshield.

Hey all,

We’ve asked Google to review the alert for removal. Stay tuned! Thanks!

Pipstradamus