McAfee Site Advisor warning -- False Positive

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Re: McAfee Site Advisor warning -- False Positive

by Lowlander » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:09 pm

Make sure your antivirus definitions are updated.

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by karengreen » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:04 pm

pkw115 wrote:Still red through Friday. . .
Me too... :x :x :x I am running out of patience. Huhuhu

Re: McAfee Site Advisor warning -- False Positive

by rusty » Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:52 pm

Fixed by McAfee!

-Rusty

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by rusty » Fri Jan 25, 2013 10:07 am

Note that some users are again reporting that McAfee is now generating
'Warning: Dangerous Site' for the MediaMonkey executable.

The url in question is:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/MediaMonkey_Setup.exe

which redirects to our Content Distribution Network:
http://4258.voxcdn.com/sw/MediaMonkey_4.0.7.1511.exe

There is no problem with the file, and I've contacted McAfee to resolve this false positive.

-Rusty

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by Just JP » Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:06 am

Green this morning. Yeah!! :D

Jim

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by pkw115 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:32 am

Still red through Friday. . .

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by Guest » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:29 am

In order to have McAfee re-test quickly, you should contact their support team.

They've got a link here:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/webmasters/index.html

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by jiri » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:41 am

All the links in red were removed, so hopefully they'll change the rating asap.

Jiri

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by pkw115 » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:19 am

Yes it seems that it's the supposed links that are the problem. All 97 downloads from the MM site they tested were green. . . There does appear to be a way for the site owner to leave a comment on the McAfee report page, but no obvious way to request a re-scan, at least on the report page I saw which was similar if not identical to the one pushpull linked to. I suspect Ventis will have to get McAfee to change its rating. . .

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by Mizery_Made » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:43 am

I haven't found any references to any of those sites, other than in this thread. It may be a case of links to those red listed sites appeared in Spam postings which have since been deleted. That, coupled with the possible fact that McAfee doesn't contain anything close to "live" results, and as such, they may not re-check this site for another month or something. Unless there is a way for someone from the MediaMonkey team to request a more timely re-scan.

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by pkw115 » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:51 pm

Rusty, Pushpull is right, still red for me also. McAfee shows MM as red becasue of links to Uptodown.com; Softsea.com; Download2you.com and
1st-download.com, therefor MM is still invisible to McAfee Site Advisor users. . .

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by pushpull » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:20 pm

Still red. There are other links listed.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/mediam ... 0&pip=true

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by pkw115 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:28 pm

Thanks Rusty, I'll give it a try at work tomorrow and will report back if it is still red.

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by rusty » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:33 pm

Thanks for the feedback. I've deleted the link to uptodown. Hopefully that'll solve the problem.

-Rusty

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Blocks MM Site and Forum as "Unsafe"

by Mizery_Made » Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:08 am

McAfee isn't a Web Nanny company, it wasn't checking for language, RC. It was checking for malware, phishing, and other such nasties. Not the first "safe" site I know of to get tagged by such software/services. The spam may be the cause, may not. Could be a link to a hosting service a scripter is using (or did use), as I know 110mb was blacklisted by Microsoft and such a few years ago because people were using it to phish for Messenger login details.

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