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I only overrode the message twice. Once yesterday and once today. No more, even though I've been here numerous times since earlier today. Yes, also no problems with the gallery side.
and I still cannot log on unless I use the advanced button and be at risk with my computer... is there some thing O need to do or change to log on?? is any one else still having issues???
Nope. Nothing any of us can do but override the message and wait.
I and a few of my blogging friends have another problem. Our thread for our blogging group has disappeared. It's no longer in my Subscriptions or in the Blogging Groups Forum. I tried getting to it by an old e-mail notification, but it says it doesn't exist. The girl who is the head of it with access to it can't get into SCS right now either, which is still happening to a bunch of other members.
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I and a few of my blogging friends have another problem. Our thread for our blogging group has disappeared. It's no longer in my Subscriptions or in the Blogging Groups Forum. I tried getting to it by an old e-mail notification, but it says it doesn't exist. The girl who is the head of it with access to it can't get into SCS right now either, which is still happening to a bunch of other members.
1) The thread is gone. Unfortunately, it had a link in it to one of the sites that was hacked, so it was contributing to the flag. So sorry about that, but we are doing everything we can to get Google to clear us.
2) She can get into SCS - she just has to click to ignore the warning.
Whew, I am happy that all is OK here. I panicked when I saw the message from Firefox. Isn't it just disgraceful how people who have nothing better to do than spoil the web? The school that my DD goes to had its website hacked a few weeks ago and was filled with referrer SPAM to very rude websites. Hack a school website?! That's appalling!
Thanks for all the work that goes on behind the scenes to keep this fantastic place running plus attending to our forum queries.
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Whew, I am happy that all is OK here. I panicked when I saw the message from Firefox. Isn't it just disgraceful how people who have nothing better to do than spoil the web? The school that my DD goes to had its website hacked a few weeks ago and was filled with referrer SPAM to very rude websites. Hack a school website?! That's appalling!
Thanks for all the work that goes on behind the scenes to keep this fantastic place running plus attending to our forum queries.
I know right? I think the next Nobel Peace Prize should go to the person that eliminates spammers and hackers from the earth!!
Just to wrap up before I close this issue out, here is what happened.
There was never any malicious content on Splitcoaststampers.
The source of the alert was four websites that were infected by malware.
Those four sites happened to be sites that were linked in forum posts on our site - many were years old. You can imagine that on a site this large, with this much content, every now and then we will have a link to a site that has been hacked or subject to malware. You will remember that that happened recently with the Stamping Top 50 widget, which was infected with malicious code and was removed.
We removed the posts and links and had to wait to be cleared.
This is why we are very careful with both our own security at Splitcoast, and also why our site posting rules are designed to have Splitcoast be a source of great user-generated content, and not just a link farm, as we can only control the security of our own site, not anyone else's.
The sites involved were innocent victims, and they are all still flagged an inaccessible as of today.
Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We missed you! .
