@dernman: hmm that is odd, Internet Explorer? This is something the engineer's will need to look into so what browser and specific version are you using? and what is your operating system? the more details they have the easier it will be for them to duplicate the problem.
@dernman: that image has been a problem in the past, where are you seeing it? I thought I deleted every version of it, basically if you look at the image in hex (I think it was hex) there is a url redirect to a site that no longer exists, it isn't dangerous but we don't want it causing problems so where ever you are finding that image I'll try to get rid of it.
Not seeing it myself I don't think. I just looked further into Norton's report page to see what they're saying is the problem. I get the this page is suspect on the toolbar for everywhere I go on CV.
@dernman: hmm, it is most likely cached somewhere then, like Norton is pulling the results from a cached page on another server or maybe from your own cache on your computer, try clearing your browser cache to see if that does anything, if not post back here and in a few hours when I get home I'll see if I can find that image lurking anywhere.
@mysticmedivh: It will do that for anyone using Norton, as I said in a previous post it has a redirect url embedded in the image, it isn't a threat though. A couple of other anti-virus programs pick it up as well.
@pikahyper: I think it's my Norton toolbar on my browser gives ratings to sites..
This happened to me too, not only with Norton but also with Adblock. Apparently they both think there is a virus and CV is trying to download something on my computer.
@pikahyper: I think it's my Norton toolbar on my browser gives ratings to sites..
This happened to me too, not only with Norton but also with Adblock. Apparently they both think there is a virus and CV is trying to download something on my computer.
I'm using Chrome on Windows 10.
I have ABP but I haven't received any notice there. Just the Norton.
@dernman: ya I'm using ABP as well, have been for years and never seen it have a problem with that image even when its been brought up as a problem for others in the past.
@dernman: honestly I can't find that image in any galleries any more so it must just be sitting on the server somewhere but not actively being used, I'll contact an engineer and ask them to manually delete the image from the server as that will be the only way to get rid of it at this point.
@pikahyper: @dernman: I'm using standard Adblock. Everytime I enter the site I have a message from Adblock on the bottom right saying: "Adblock has blocked a download from a website known to host malware."
@goonage: bizarre, I will have to test that out, CV must be on one of their lists based off old information cause like I mentioned before that image is not actually used anywhere on the site, even if it was malicious it couldn't actually do anything unless it was accessed, you wouldn't just automatically download it by visiting the site you'd have to go somewhere the image is used.
@dernman: ok I will, I'm guessing it might not change anything though as Norton, like Adblock, might be working off of some old list, if that is true then one of the engineers will have to actually contact Norton and be like "please scan the site again, there are no malicious files and we would like to be removed from your blacklist" or some such hassle, CV would have to contact any company that has us on a blacklist for being a malware hosting site :/
@pikahyper: I was thinking something like that from reading one of the links from the report page but since I'm a dinosaur with computers I didn't know if I was understanding right..
@dernman: I'm sure you got the jist of it, sites get on these lists all the time, it happens a lot with search engines as well, search engines decide a site is hosting malware or illegal content or is pornographic and then the site gets branded. In chrome malware/malicious sites bring up a warning page warning users not to visit the site and make you click a couple of things before you can ignore the warning, we don't want that kind of stuff, anything that can hurt our traffic is very important to the staff and engineers.
For this specific situation I found a conversation from earlier in the year or last year (it only had a partial timestamp) and from the snippet I read it looks like one of the ad providers CV used that paid to be used here was actually malicious and they injected code into the site and that specific Vertigo image for some bizarre reason (probably others as well) and even though CV stopped using the ad provider we've been branded with the scarlet letter ever since. Every once in a while CV gets bad ad providers, ones that do things that were not agreed upon like having ads that auto-play audio or video or take up the whole screen or popup and obscure key sections of the site or host malware, that kind of stuff is against the rules they agreed to but people tend to just ignore ads by default and without any reports the engineers won't know the site was wronged so ads keep being used. CV is not the only one this happens to of course, I'm sure thousands of sites deal with this kind of thing every day around the world, ad providers tend to be shady but a necessary evil.
@cosmosis: I don't know much about the page but from what I've read I think it looks at your ISP not just your specific IP, probably for combating bots and people using multiple accounts, so if you haven't changed it could be that more people/bots are using your ISP and causing problems that you are getting swept into.
@pikahyper: Hmm...so the fact that someone in my vicinity (in an internet sense) might be doing something potentially naughty is causing me problems? That's unfortunate, especially since that sounds like something that can't be fixed on either of our ends.
@cosmosis: pretty much, they'd have to be doing a lot though as that thing is not easy to bring up from what I understand, it really is mainly for bots and scrappers so that's a lot of traffic in a short period of time, lots of people use the same ISPs so I'm sure it is a pretty high threshold otherwise we'd be getting tons of people complaining about it.
@pikahyper: Well, the internet is like the subway in any major city; it's a safe bet that, at any given moment, someone is doing something incredibly unwholesome in it.
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