SpringFiles blacklisted as malware site

[SpliFF]

First Google told me not to go there:
http://www.google.com.au/interstitial?u ... files.com/
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/ ... s.com/1683


Then Firefox:

Reported Attack Page!

This web page at springfiles.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.

They both get data from this site:
http://www.stopbadware.org/firefox?hl=e ... p%3Fid%3D1

[knorke]

fun fact: no warning when visiting via http://jobjol.nl/

[SpliFF]

On a side-note, I wish they'd stop calling it 'badware', that sounds fucking ridiculous.

Evil minions aren't evilbad-doers,
You don't sue for malbadpractice,
Riots aren't filled with dis badfunctional malbadcontents,
Idiots aren't misbadinformed.

It's MALware you fuckers, everyone else knows that.

[Beherith]

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for springfiles.com

What is the current listing status for springfiles.com?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 11 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-09-27, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS3265 (XS4ALL).

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for AS3265 (XS4ALL)

What happened when Google visited sites hosted on this network?

Of the 10124 site(s) we tested on this network over the past 90 days, 171 site(s), including, for example, rtvchannel.tv/, sangam.nl/, bollywoodonline.nl/, served content that resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent.

The last time Google tested a site on this network was on 2010-09-27, and the last time suspicious content was found was on 2010-09-27.

Has this network hosted sites acting as intermediaries for further malware distribution?

Over the past 90 days, we found 17 site(s) on this network, including, for example, dotclick.nl/, shasha.nl/, dehippekip.nl/, that appeared to function as intermediaries for the infection of 46 other site(s) including, for example, sangam.nl/, bollywoodonline.nl/, indianfeelings.nl/.

Has this network hosted sites that have distributed malware?

Yes, this network has hosted sites that have distributed malicious software in the past 90 days. We found 5 site(s), including, for example, shasha.nl/, topsexverhalen.nl/, dehippekip.nl/, that infected 135 other site(s), including, for example, reborn.xp3.biz/, riskanalizi.net/, m-pe.com/.

Next steps:

* Return to the previous page.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, springfiles.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:

* Return to the previous page.
* If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

Seems like the host was to blame.

[SpliFF]

Firefox has detected badware on this site

The site you have tried to visit has been a very naughty boy. It has been spanked and sent to bed without its supper.

Your browser can't play with this site this week because the site has been grounded. If it behaves itself it can come to your party on Saturday.

We know this site has been hanging around with all the bad sites down in the poor racks after curfew. If we catch you going there your browsing privileges will be suspended for a week. If you keep this up we'll also delete your facebook and twitter accounts.

You've been warned, now finish your homework.

Your loving parents,
Mozilla & Google

[aegis]

chrome says malware

[KDR_11k]

Next step: Ungoodware.

[swoyara]

What is a free and safe anti malware program? I need a good free anti malware program to get read of security master av? Please i need it to be safe i have enough problems wrong with my computer as it is right now lol. I don't mind if it is a trial as long as it will scan AND REMOVE the malware. Thank you!

[Forboding Angel]

Get Avast free edition at: www.avast.com << Runtime scan will sort you out in notime, and it's excellent Antivirus with low overhead.
Go get spybot search and destroy at: www.safer-networking.org << run immunization and a scan.

Start using firefox or google chrome with the adblock extention.

[hoijui]

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
because... where do you want to go tomorrow?

[scifi]

Anyways thats bad, and how mutch time has passed since the last evaluation, so they sigthed the website as red, then dont bother to check after lol.

Still its all about the website owner getting an email to google, or us flaming firefox forum about it, or google with flame emails, let the flame war begin!.

[bobthedinosaur]

spring is sometimes seen as undeadware

[SinbadEV]

Get Avast free edition at: http://www.avast.com << Runtime scan will sort you out in notime, and it's excellent Antivirus with low overhead.
Go get spybot search and destroy at: http://www.safer-networking.org << run immunization and a scan.

Start using firefox or google chrome with the adblock extention.

+1 to spybot S&D...

the "addblock" I prefer is NoScript (http://noscript.net/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... fox&id=722 )

I also like to keep firebug and grease-monkey around in case I need to tweak how web-sites work or block some but not all scripts on the page.

[AF]

Avast and AVG are too heavy and have agendas in that they want you to buy pricier versions. They have also been shown to miss rather common things, and install other 'addons' like AVG toolbar.

Benchmarks and tests show Microsoft Security Essentials to be far lighter weight.

However, if you purely rely on antivirus then in my opinion you are actually less secure than if you had no antivirus. That false sense of security lets you do reckless things that lets the real dangerous stuff ( the stuff antivirus doesn't protect you from ) get on your machine a lot faster.

Best way to do things:
Google Chrome + uptodate microsoft security essentials + common sense + running as a standard not admin level account + latest version of windows

[Forboding Angel]

MS security essentials is useless. Avast does not try to install additional stuff. AVG does (which is why i stopped using it 10 - 15 years ago).

Avast has very low overhead and one of the best av scanners in the business with the lowest number of false positives.

Common Sense is by far the best antimalware/antivirus. The only problem is, common sense isn't common.