boards.ie - rated "Red" by McAfee Site Advisor

SeanW · 2007-03-01 16:29:26

Just thought you should know, if you don't already, that boards.ie just got a "Red" a.k.a. unsafe rating from McAfee Site adivsor. That means that people who visit boards.ie and have McAfee Site Advisor on, will be warned that "When we visited this site, we found to star-adserver.com, which our analysis found to be…

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Just thought you should know, if you don't already, that boards.ie just got a "Red" a.k.a. unsafe rating from McAfee Site adivsor.

That means that people who visit boards.ie and have McAfee Site Advisor on, will be warned that "When we visited this site, we found to star-adserver.com, which our analysis found to be deceptive or fradulent."

Strangely this analysis hasn't changed recently, but it seems to be only in the last day or two that it affected boards.ie's rating.

Here's the full report
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/boards.ie

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#2 01-03-2007 05:36PM

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Here is the star-adserver.com report from McAffee site advisor.

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#3 01-03-2007 10:30PM

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star-adserver.com - spawn of Stan./

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#4 01-03-2007 10:37PM

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I'll pass this onto the appropriate authorities

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#5 01-03-2007 10:43PM

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The only reference to "adserver" I have seen has been to salesonline adserver which if memory serves is adserver.de.

Google does link salesonline and www.star-adserver.com, I will contact them tomorrow about it.

Thanks for the heads up.

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#6 01-03-2007 10:44PM

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Beaten to it. Gah

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#7 01-03-2007 10:52PM

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mike65 wrote:

star-adserver.com - spawn of Stan./

Mike.

that stan guy is some crazy mf.

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#8 01-03-2007 11:22PM

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Vexorg wrote:

Beaten to it. Gah

I was going to post a picture of a cat with maybe a caption like 'pwned' but it gets old quick

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#9 01-03-2007 11:31PM

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I of course meant Spawn of Stam

Mike.

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#10 01-03-2007 11:35PM

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regi wrote:

I was going to post a picture of a cat with maybe a caption like 'pwned' but it gets old quick

Pfft, cats were last week. This week, its gangsters!

I am so very, very sorry.

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#11 02-03-2007 12:15AM

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You have no idea how hard it is to stop myself from posting countless amusingly captioned images in this thread. I'm holding off only because I know Regi's aching for an excuse to ban me for a week or so.

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#12 02-03-2007 12:16AM

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#13 02-03-2007 01:18AM

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Red is dead, y'know!

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#14 02-03-2007 04:03AM

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Well I'm glad to see nothing has changed since this
It seems that even the simplest of notifications to Feedback won't be spared the usual "in joke" nonsense that is only funny too the few that respond to them.

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#15 02-03-2007 07:20AM

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cast_iron wrote:

Well I'm glad to see nothing has changed since this
It seems that even the simplest of notifications to Feedback won't be spared the usual "in joke" nonsense that is only funny too the few that respond to them.

thread has served its purpose. it has fufilled its destiny... Admins have been informed. SeanW has provided a really useful heads up.

It seems that even the simplest of notifications to Feedback won't be spared the usual "moany fucks" nonsense...

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#16 02-03-2007 10:49AM

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lafortezza wrote:

This whole situation has turned his life upside down face.

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#17 02-03-2007 10:53PM

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SeanW wrote:

Just thought you should know, if you don't already, that boards.ie just got a "Red" a.k.a. unsafe rating from McAfee Site adivsor.

Oh teh noes!

And McAfee Site Advisor is so respected :rolleyes:

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#18 03-03-2007 01:06AM

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It has been pointed out to me that the above could be taken as me rolling my eyes at the OP.

I would like to make it clear that I am rolling my eyes at McAfee Site Advisor, and not at the OP.

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#19 03-03-2007 03:46AM

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Coincidentally I was on a panel with the co-founder of SiteAdvisor today.

http://mit.edu/jiggity/www/chutzpah/tef/itpanelists.html

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#20 03-03-2007 01:11PM

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Cloud wrote:

Coincidentally I was on a panel with the co-founder of SiteAdvisor today.

http://mit.edu/jiggity/www/chutzpah/tef/itpanelists.html

i hope you gave him a panel beating..

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#21 03-03-2007 04:03PM

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And Ithought that Boards.ie was in the red because it had bought Boards.co.uk !:)

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#22 05-03-2007 08:10PM

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Cloud wrote:

Coincidentally I was on a panel with the co-founder of SiteAdvisor today.

Believe it or not, for a second I thought you meant The Panel on RTE:o

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#23 05-03-2007 10:15PM

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Strange only happened recently, it was a green site on Siteadvisory up to 2 weeks ago (I think). I use the IP address in work and it doesn't register on Site advisor as its URL based.

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#24 05-03-2007 10:54PM

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I've never liked mcafee as it's resource heavy

Do a google on problems uninstalling it-anything that is that difficult to uninstall I'd class as worth avoiding to be honest.

I never managed to get it fully off this pc :mad:

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#25 06-03-2007 03:43PM

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Exactly my thoughts.... I've been online since 1988 and the worst, most persistent, invasive and frustrating "virus" I've ever mistakenly installed was McAfee. Its like the clap.

DeV.

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#26 06-03-2007 03:50PM

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DeVore wrote:

Exactly my thoughts.... I've been online since 1988 and the worst, most persistent, invasive and frustrating "virus" I've ever mistakenly installed was McAfee. Its like the clap.

DeV.

will take your word for it

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#27 06-03-2007 08:03PM

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Symantec and McAfee the market "heavy weights" that drag your PC down. The wonders of persistant marketing.

I use Solo Scan for what its worth. Light and cheap.

Mike.

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#28 06-03-2007 08:18PM

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I use Ubuntu. What's a McAfee?

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#29 06-03-2007 08:23PM

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some kind of coffee?

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#30 06-03-2007 08:28PM

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A bun.

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#31 06-03-2007 08:57PM

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It's a contender with Norton for people who find that Windows runs too well for them and they want to mess it up more.

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