Phishing Website every time I access boards.ie

RJellybean · 03-01-2025 03:45PM #1

My anti-virus is notifying me of a website blocked due to phishing every time I access Boards.ie on my laptop using chrome. I'm not getting it on any other sites. Below are the details I'm getting.

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Glaceon · 03-01-2025 03:57PM

Looks like a false positive on Malwarebytes, they're blocking the Vanilla CDN.

03-01-2025 04:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123013304#Comment_123013304

Unfortunately, they don't consider it false: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/321106-usv-cdnnet-fp-check/. Staff comment:

This is a valid block.

@RJellybean, if you want to prevent the warning, you'll have to add it to your MalwareBytes exclusions. The us.v-cdn.net domain is heavily used throughout Boards.ie

Glaceon · 03-01-2025 05:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123013356#Comment_123013356

I'd be looking at another AV vendor in that case. They should surely give more information than that.

Spear · 03-01-2025 09:13PM

That's the domain used by Vanilla for their CDN to supply all the various image content. Any image that's uploaded or attached goes onto it. It's used across anything they host, so it's not only boards.ie that's affected, it's everything with them. Malwarebytes clearly don't know what they're doing.

RJellybean · 04-01-2025 12:33AM

Thank you everyone for your comments. The pop ups seem to have magically stopped tonight, hopefully it was just a glitch. I'll whitelist the site if it starts back up again.

Phishing Website every time I access boards.ie

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